Effective screening of Coulomb repulsions in water accelerates reactions of like-charged compounds by orders of magnitude
oleh: Adam Kowalski, Krzysztof Bielec, Grzegorz Bubak, Pawel J. Żuk, Maciej Czajkowski, Volodymyr Sashuk, Wilhelm T. S. Huck, Jan M. Antosiewicz, Robert Holyst
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2022-10-01 |
Deskripsi
The reaction speed of like-charged compounds in water is extremely slow due to Coulomb repulsions. Here, the authors boost kinetics up to 5 million times by screening these interactions and increasing the local concentration of reactants using positively charged micelles. They show the effect for two independent systems and present a theoretical explanation.