Angelicin (ANG) is the simplest angular furocoumarin. It undergoes photoinduced DNA monoadduct formation and does not form interstrand cross-links,…
Mechanophores that translate mechanical force into optical signals are powerful tools for probing damage in polymeric materials, yet regularly suffer…
Supramolecular PdnL2n architectures are versatile molecular platforms with applications spanning catalysis, sensing, and therapeutic delivery. Whereas…
The cyclobutane motif is a versatile force-reactive moiety enabling diverse mechanophores and their associated functions in polymer mechanochemistry.…
Autonomous reaction discovery using ab initio nanoreactor dynamics in combination with periodic density functional theory (DFT) computations…
The reactivity of four-membered carbocycle mechanophores, such as cyclobutane (CB), cyclobutene (CBE), and benzocyclobutene (BCB), has been explored…
Plasmon resonance coupling is a strongly distance-dependent phenomenon that also critically depends on the spatial arrangement of its plasmonic…
Besides long established thermal and photochemical activation of chemical reactivity, mechanical forces emerged as a further tool to drive reactions.…
The chemical modification of peptides is a powerful method to enhance their pharmacological properties, including membrane permeability, metabolic…
The electronic structure of carbenes arises from the occupation of a σ and a π frontier orbital. While parent methylene possesses a triplet ground…
