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Controlling thermal reactivity with different colors of light

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, November 2017
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Title
Controlling thermal reactivity with different colors of light
Published in
Nature Communications, November 2017
DOI 10.1038/s41467-017-02022-0
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Authors

Hannes A. Houck, Filip E. Du Prez, Christopher Barner-Kowollik

Abstract

The ability to switch between thermally and photochemically activated reaction channels with an external stimulus constitutes a key frontier within the realm of chemical reaction control. Here, we demonstrate that the reactivity of triazolinediones, powerful coupling agents in biomedical and polymer research, can be effectively modulated by an external photonic field. Specifically, we show that their visible light-induced photopolymerization leads to a quantitative photodeactivation, thereby providing a well-defined off-switch of their thermal reactivity. Based on this photodeactivation, we pioneer a reaction manifold using light as a gate to switch between a UV-induced Diels-Alder reaction with photocaged dienes and a thermal addition reaction with alkenes. Critically, the modulation of the reactivity by light is reversible and the individually addressable reaction pathways can be repeatedly accessed. Our approach thus enables a step change in photochemically controlled reactivity, not only in small molecule ligations, yet importantly in controlled surface and photoresist design.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 69 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 30%
Student > Master 11 16%
Student > Bachelor 9 13%
Researcher 7 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 10%
Other 3 4%
Unknown 11 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Chemistry 38 55%
Materials Science 6 9%
Engineering 4 6%
Physics and Astronomy 3 4%
Chemical Engineering 2 3%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 12 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 67. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 December 2019.
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#544,767
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#9,602
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#13,738
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#325
of 1,469 outputs
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