Three concomitant C–C dissociation pathways during the mechanical activation of an N-heterocyclic carbene precursor

The cascade unzipping of ladderane reveals dynamic effects in mechanochemistry

(2020) Zhixing Chen et al.   Nature Chemistry

Mechanical activation drastically accelerates amide bond hydrolysis, matching enzyme activity

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Triggered metal ion release and oxidation: Ferrocene as new mechanophore in polymers

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Force-Induced Catastrophes on Energy Landscapes: Mechanochemical Manipulation of Downhill and Uphill Bifurcations Explains the Ring-Opening Selectivity of Cyclopropanes

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Quantitative and Mechanistic Mechanochemistry in Ferrocene Dissociation

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A Mechanochemically Triggered “Click” Catalyst

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Probing Force with Mechanobase-Induced Chemiluminescence

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Reactivity and Mechanism of a Mechanically Activated anti-Woodward–Hoffmann–DePuy Reaction

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Inducing and quantifying forbidden reactivity with single-molecule polymer mechanochemistry

(2015) Junpeng Wang et al.   Nature Chemistry

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(2015) Stefan Naumann et al.   Polymer Chemistry

The mechanochemical production of phenyl cations through heterolytic bond scission

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Kinetic Analysis of Mechanochemical Chain Scission of Linear Poly(phthalaldehyde)

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Mechanically triggered heterolytic unzipping of a low-ceiling-temperature polymer

(2014) Charles E. Diesendruck et al.   Nature Chemistry

Liberation of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) from thermally labile progenitors: protected NHCs as versatile tools in organo- and polymerization catalysis

(2014) Stefan Naumann et al.   Catalysis Science & Technology

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

(2013) Yancong Tian et al.   Nature Communications

Tension Trapping of Carbonyl Ylides Facilitated by a Change in Polymer Backbone

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Trapping a Diradical Transition State by Mechanochemical Polymer Extension

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Mechanically-Induced Chemical Changes in Polymeric Materials

(2009) Mary M. Caruso et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Force-activated reactivity switch in a bimolecular chemical reaction

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

Activating catalysts with mechanical force

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Bifurcations on Potential Energy Surfaces of Organic Reactions

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Cu-Catalyzed Azide−Alkyne Cycloaddition

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Highly Efficient Mechanochemical Scission of Silver-Carbene Coordination Polymers

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