Search Results - "Kouznetsova, Tatiana B."
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A Latent Mechanoacid for Time-Stamped Mechanochromism and Chemical Signaling in Polymeric Materials
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (08-01-2020)“…Mechanically coupled proton transduction offers potential for stress-responsive polymeric materials whose properties can be switched via acid-triggered…”
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Force-Rate Characterization of Two Spiropyran-Based Molecular Force Probes
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (20-05-2015)“…The mechanically accelerated ring-opening reaction of spiropyran to a colored merocyanine provides a useful method by which to image the molecular scale…”
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Mechanical gating of a mechanochemical reaction cascade
Published in Nature communications (16-11-2016)“…Covalent polymer mechanochemistry offers promising opportunities for the control and engineering of reactivity. To date, covalent mechanochemistry has largely…”
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Enhanced polymer mechanical degradation through mechanochemically unveiled lactonization
Published in Nature communications (05-10-2020)“…The mechanical degradation of polymers is typically limited to a single chain scission per triggering chain stretching event, and the loss of stress transfer…”
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Distal conformational locks on ferrocene mechanophores guide reaction pathways for increased mechanochemical reactivity
Published in Nature chemistry (01-01-2021)“…Mechanophores can be used to produce strain-dependent covalent chemical responses in polymeric materials, including stress strengthening, stress sensing and…”
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Mechanism Dictates Mechanics: A Molecular Substituent Effect in the Macroscopic Fracture of a Covalent Polymer Network
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (17-03-2021)“…The fracture of rubbery polymer networks involves a series of molecular events, beginning with conformational changes along the polymer backbone and…”
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Reactivity and Mechanism of a Mechanically Activated anti-Woodward–Hoffmann–DePuy Reaction
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (16-09-2015)“…Mechanical forces, applied via covalent polymer mechanochemistry, have been used to bias reaction pathways and activate otherwise inaccessible reactions. Here,…”
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Understanding the Mechanochemistry of Ladder-Type Cyclobutane Mechanophores by Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (11-08-2021)“…We have recently reported a series of ladder-type cyclobutane mechanophores, polymers of which can transform from nonconjugated structures to conjugated…”
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Substituent Effects in Mechanochemical Allowed and Forbidden Cyclobutene Ring-Opening Reactions
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (17-03-2021)“…Woodward and Hoffman once jested that a very powerful Maxwell demon could seize a molecule of cyclobutene at its methylene groups and tear it open in a…”
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Single-Molecule Observation of a Mechanically Activated Cis-to-Trans Cyclopropane Isomerization
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (24-08-2016)“…The mechanochemical activation of cis-gem-difluorocyclopropane (cis-gDFC) mechanophore in toluene was characterized with single-molecule force spectroscopy…”
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Single-Molecule Activation and Quantification of Mechanically Triggered Palladium–Carbene Bond Dissociation
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (03-02-2021)“…Metal-complexed N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) mechanophores are latent reactants and catalysts for a range of mechanically driven chemical responses, but…”
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Mechanically Gated Degradable Polymers
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (05-02-2020)“…Degradable polymers are desirable for the replacement of conventional organic polymers that persist in the environment, but they often suffer from the…”
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A backbone lever-arm effect enhances polymer mechanochemistry
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Toughening hydrogels through force-triggered chemical reactions that lengthen polymer strands
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (08-10-2021)“…The utility and lifetime of materials made from polymer networks, including hydrogels, depend on their capacity to stretch and resist tearing. In gels and…”
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Facile mechanochemical cycloreversion of polymer cross-linkers enhances tear resistance
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (23-06-2023)“…The mechanical properties of covalent polymer networks often arise from the permanent end-linking or cross-linking of polymer strands, and molecular linkers…”
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Solvent Polarity Effects on the Mechanochemistry of Spiropyran Ring Opening
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (14-02-2024)“…The spiropyran mechanophore (SP) is employed as a reporter of molecular tension in a wide range of polymer matrices, but the influence of surrounding…”
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Mechanochemistry of Cubane
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (21-12-2022)“…We report the mechanochemical reactivity of the highly strained pentacyclic hydrocarbon cubane. The mechanical reactivity of cubane is explored for three…”
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Single-Event Spectroscopy and Unravelling Kinetics of Covalent Domains Based on Cyclobutane Mechanophores
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (07-04-2021)“…Mechanochemical reactions that lead to an increase in polymer contour length have the potential to serve as covalent synthetic mimics of the mechanical…”
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Inducing and quantifying forbidden reactivity with single-molecule polymer mechanochemistry
Published in Nature chemistry (01-04-2015)“…Forbidden reactions, such as those that violate orbital symmetry effects as captured in the Woodward–Hoffmann rules, remain an ongoing challenge for…”
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Mechanochemistry of Pterodactylane
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (10-01-2024)“…Pterodactylane is a [4]-ladderane with substituents on the central rung. Comparing the mechanochemistry of the [4]-ladderane structure when pulled from the…”
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