Directing isomerization reactions of cumulenes with electric fields

Electric fields have been proposed as having a distinct ability to catalyse chemical reactions through stabilizing polar intermediates. Here, the authors show that electric fields can catalyse the cis-to-trans isomerization reactions of cumulenes in solution in a scanning tunnelling microscope

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yaping Zang, Qi Zou, Tianren Fu, Fay Ng, Brandon Fowler, Jingjing Yang, Hexing Li, Michael L. Steigerwald, Colin Nuckolls, Latha Venkataraman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12487-w