Journal of the American Chemical Society

Liquid crystalline catalysis: reactivity induced by smectic solvents

B Samori, L Fiocco

Index: Samori, Bruno; Fiocco, Lorenzo Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1982 , vol. 104, # 9 p. 2634 - 2636

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Abstract

58 87 cryen i molecular orientation of the solute. If the solute molecules are able to react, the tendency of the solvent to maintain its lowest energy, undistorted state can exert constraints on the conformations' and encounters of the reactant molecules so as to decrease or increase the free energy of activation of the reaction. Rate acceleration is expected when a favorable reactant orientation or rotamer distribution, which prefigures the transition state, ...