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Mechanical Reversibility of Strain-Promoted Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition Reactions

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Polymer Mechanochemistry: From Destructive to Productive

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Pinpointing Mechanochemical Bond Rupture by Embedding the Mechanophore into a Macrocycle

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Finding mechanochemical pathways and barriers without transition state search

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Inducing and quantifying forbidden reactivity with single-molecule polymer mechanochemistry

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Molecular engineering of mechanophore activity for stress-responsive polymeric materials

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Mechanically induced silyl ester cleavage under acidic conditions investigated by AFM-based single-molecule force spectroscopy in the force-ramp mode

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A density functional theory model of mechanically activated silyl ester hydrolysis

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Mechanochemistry: The Effect of Dynamics

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A Remote Stereochemical Lever Arm Effect in Polymer Mechanochemistry

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Strain-Induced Strengthening of the Weakest Link: The Importance of Intermediate Geometry for the Outcome of Mechanochemical Reactions

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Direct correlation of single-molecule properties with bulk mechanical performance for the biomimetic design of polymers

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Simulation of Force Spectroscopy Experiments on Galacturonic Acid Oligomers

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Force Distribution Analysis of Mechanochemically Reactive Dimethylcyclobutene

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Stress-Responsive Polymers Containing Cyclobutane Core Mechanophores: Reactivity and Mechanistic Insights

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Mechanocatalysis: forcing latent catalysts into action

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Model studies of force-dependent kinetics of multi-barrier reactions

(2013) Yancong Tian et al.   Nature Communications

Single-Molecule Force-Clamp Experiments Reveal Kinetics of Mechanically Activated Silyl Ester Hydrolysis

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Covalent Mechanochemistry: Theoretical Concepts and Computational Tools with Applications to Molecular Nanomechanics

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CPMD Simulation of a Bimolecular Chemical Reaction: Nucleophilic Attack of a Disulfide Bond under Mechanical Stress

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Bicyclo[3.2.0]heptane Mechanophores for the Non-scissile and Photochemically Reversible Generation of Reactive Bis-enones

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Mechanically induced chemiluminescence from polymers incorporating a 1,2-dioxetane unit in the main chain

(2012) Yulan Chen et al.   Nature Chemistry

Finding Reaction Pathways of Type A + B → X: Toward Systematic Prediction of Reaction Mechanisms

(2011) Satoshi Maeda et al.   Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

On the role of polymer chains in transducing external mechanical forces to benzocyclobutene mechanophores

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Kinetic Measurements on Single-Molecule Disulfide Bond Cleavage

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Mechanically Induced Scission and Subsequent Thermal Remending of Perfluorocyclobutane Polymers

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Structure–Mechanochemical Activity Relationships for Cyclobutane Mechanophores

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Mechanically activated rupture of single covalent bonds: evidence of force induced bond hydrolysis

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Masked Cyanoacrylates Unveiled by Mechanical Force

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Simple Coupling Chemistry Linking Carboxyl-Containing Organic Molecules to Silicon Oxide Surfaces under Acidic Conditions

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Geometry optimization in the presence of external forces: a theoretical model for enforced structural changes in molecules

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Computational and single-molecule force studies of a macro domain protein reveal a key molecular determinant for mechanical stability

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Understanding Covalent Mechanochemistry

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Mechanically-Induced Chemical Changes in Polymeric Materials

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Unravelling the Mechanism of Force-Induced Ring-Opening of Benzocyclobutenes

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First Principles Dynamics and Minimum Energy Pathways for Mechanochemical Ring Opening of Cyclobutene

(2009) Mitchell T. Ong et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Theoretical predictions of enforced structural changes in molecules

(2009) Krzysztof Wolinski et al.   MOLECULAR PHYSICS

Force-induced activation of covalent bonds in mechanoresponsive polymeric materials

(2009) Douglas A. Davis et al.   NATURE

Force-activated reactivity switch in a bimolecular chemical reaction

(2009) Sergi Garcia-Manyes et al.   Nature Chemistry

Activating catalysts with mechanical force

(2009) Alessio Piermattei et al.   Nature Chemistry

A molecular force probe

(2009) Qing-Zheng Yang et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Atomic force microscopy spring constant determination in viscous liquids

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The New Metabolite (S)-Cinnamoylphosphoramide fromStreptomycessp. and Its Total Synthesis

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Dynamic Strength of the Silicon−Carbon Bond Observed over Three Decades of Force-Loading Rates

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Single-Molecule Measurement of the Strength of a Siloxane Bond†

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