The Janus-faced role of external forces in mechanochemical disulfide bond cleavage

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 685-691

  Dopieralski, Przemyslaw ^a,b   Ribas Arino, Jordi ^a,d   Anjukandi, Padmesh ^a   Krupicka, Martin ^a   Kiss, Janos ^a,c   Marx, Dominik ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISULFIDE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; HYDROLYSIS; ARTICLE;

DISULFIDES; HYDROLYSIS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE;

EID: 84881094627     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1676     Document Type: Article

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