Product stability in kinetically-controlled organic reactions

Kinetically controlled porosity in a robust organic cage material.

Cellular Automata Models of Kinetically and Thermodynamically Controlled Reactions

Cellular automata simulations of the competition between kinetically controlled and thermodynamically controlled products of a reaction are described. The simulations are based on a stochastic first-order cellular automata model described previously [20] and demonstrate an alternative to the traditional approach to such problems that relies on solution of a set of coupled differential rate equa...

Microreactor-controlled selectivity in organic photochemical reactions*

Molecular-sieve zeolites, Nafion membranes, low-density polyethylene films, and mixed surfactant vesicles have been used as microreactors to carry out organic photochemical reactions. The photo-cycloadditions of diaryl compounds with long flexible chains included in NaY zeolite or low-density polyethylene films yield intramolecular photocyclomers to the exclusion of intermolecular products. The...

Spatially controlled amyloid reactions using organic electronics.

Abnormal protein aggregates, so called amyloid fibrils, are mainly known as pathological hallmarks of a wide range of diseases, but in addition these robust well-ordered self-assembled natural nanostructures can also be utilized for creating distinct nanomaterials for bioelectronic devices. However, current methods for producing amyloid fibrils in vitro offer no spatial control. Herein, we demo...

Spotlights: Use of Montmorillonites in organic reactions

Maryam Mashhadinezhad was born in Rasht, Guilan, I. R. Iran. She received her B. Sc in chemistry in 2009 from the University of Guilan and her M.Sc. in organic chemistry in 2011 from the same University. She is studying under the supervision of Dr. Farhad Shirini for her Ph. D. Her research interests include the use of heterogeneous catalysts in organic reactions.