Mechanical gating of a mechanochemical reaction cascade

Polymer mechanochemistry offers opportunities to control and engineer desired chemical transformations. Here, Craig and co-workers present a mechanical gating system whereby one mechanophore modulates the reactivity of another, resulting in a mechanochemical cascade reaction.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Junpeng Wang, Tatiana B. Kouznetsova, Roman Boulatov, Stephen L. Craig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13433