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Photocatalytic surface patterning of cellulose using diazonium salts and visible light
Peter Schroll1, Charlie Fehl, Stephan Dankesreiter
1Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 31, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany. burkhard.koenig@chemie.uni-regensburg.de.
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
|August 22, 2013
Abstract:
Coumarin-functionalized cellulose sheets were chemically modified using a visible light catalyzed "Photo-Meerwein" arylation. Use of a photomask to pattern the surface resulted in directly visible images.

