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Development of Heterogeneous Enantioselective Catalysts using Chiral Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)
Published on: January 17, 2020
Effective molarities in supramolecular catalysis of two-substrate reactions
Roberta Cacciapaglia1, Stefano Di Stefano, Luigi Mandolini
1Dipartimento di Chimica and IMC-CNR Sezione Meccanismi di Reazione, Università La Sapienza, Box 34-Roma 62, 00185 Roma, Italy.
Abstract:
Reactivity data related to processes in which molecular receptors promote the reaction of two simultaneously complexed reactants have been surveyed and analyzed in terms of effective molarity (EM). Methods and criteria for the calculation of reliable EM's have been highlighted. Extension of a previous extrathermodynamic treatment of intramolecular reactions of bifunctional chains to the intracomplex reactions of the ternary complexes involved in two-substrate catalyzed reactions has provided a sound framework for a comparative analysis of reactivity and catalytic efficiency in structurally diverse and apparently unrelated systems.
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