Ring-Opening Radical Clock Reactions for Hybrid Organic-Silicon Surface Nanostructures: A New Self-Directed Growth Mechanism and Kinetic Insights

Nano Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 357-360

  Tong, Xiao ^a   DiLabio, Gino A ^a   Clarkin, Owen J ^a,b   Wolkow, Robert A ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPROPANE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPROPYLMETHYLKETONE; HYDROGEN; KETONE DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXYGEN; SILICON; STYRENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL BOND; KINETICS; MOLECULE; RING OPENING;

EID: 1442274985     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl035021g     Document Type: Article

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