Electric fields drive bond homolysis

Abstract

We demonstrate that electric fields can homolytically cleave a peroxide bond in different solvents with a rate that is proportional to the solvent dielectric constant.

Document Details

• Document Type: Pub Defense Publication
• Publication Date: Jan 01, 2023
• Source ID: 10.1039/d2sc06411a

Entities

People

• Boyuan Zhang
• Claudia R. Prindle
• Colin Nuckolls
• Cédric Schaack
• Ethan A. Vo
• Latha Venkataraman
• Michael L Steigerwald
• Miriam Aziz
• Timothy C. Berkelbach

Organizations

• Columbia University
• Flatiron Institute
• National Science Foundation