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Substrates In Situ Formed Dynamic Secondary Coordination Environment Regulates Reaction Pathways and Product

Jia-Hao Li1,2, Shu-Lin Meng1,2, Yi-Xuan Wang1,2

  • 1Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Photochemistry & CAS-HKU Joint Laboratory On New Materials, New Cornerstone Science Laboratory, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China.

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|October 7, 2026
PubMed

Keywords:
CdS quantum dotC─C couplingbenzaldehydedeoxybenzoinphotocatalysissecondary coordination environmentsubstrate

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