Electrostatic catalysis of a Diels-Alder reaction

Nature

Volumn 531, Issue 7592, 2016, Pages 88-91

  Aragonès, Albert C ^a,b,c   Haworth, Naomi L ^d   Darwish, Nadim ^a,b   Ciampi, Simone ^e   Bloomfield, Nathaniel J ^d   Wallace, Gordon G ^e   Diez Perez, Ismael ^a,b,c   Coote, Michelle L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE FOR BIOENGINEERING OF CATALONIA IBEC   (Spain)

^c BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BONDING; CHEMICAL REACTION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON DENSITY; REACTION KINETICS; REDOX CONDITIONS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; CARBON CARBON BOND; CATALYSIS; COVALENT BOND; DIASTEREOISOMER; DIELS ALDER REACTION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTROSTATIC CATALYSIS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALNUS;

EID: 84960119002     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature16989     Document Type: Article

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