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Electrostatic catalysis of a Diels-Alder reaction


Electrostatic catalysis of a Diels-Alder reaction

A. C. Aragonès, N. L. Haworth, N. Darwish, S. Ciampi, N. J. Bloomfield, G. G. Wallace, I. Diez-Perez, M. L. Coote.
Nature, 531 (2016) 88.

 

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The publication represents the first experimental demonstration of catalysis of a C-C formation reaction with non-redox reagents under the effect of an oriented external electrostatic field. The results open new challenges in the design of synthetic industrial chemical processes using an electric field as a catalyst for the reaction.