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Forcing and Controlling Chemical Reactions with Ultrasound
Author(s) -
Cravotto Giancarlo,
Cintas Pedro
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200701567
Subject(s) - benzocyclobutene , mechanosensitive channels , stress (linguistics) , molecule , ultrasound , polymer , chemistry , materials science , composite material , acoustics , physics , organic chemistry , receptor , biochemistry , linguistics , philosophy , ion channel
Sound bubbles : Their collapse induces mechanical stress that can be transmitted to a target single bond by means of mechanosensitive polymers attached to the two sides of a benzocyclobutene. As surprising as it may be, ultrasound guides molecules into forbidden pathways by promoting the formation of only one isomer regardless of the starting benzocyclobutene.