Selectividad inducida por láser para la dimerización frente a la polimerización del butadieno bajo presión

Margherita Citroni1, Matteo Ceppatelli, Roberto Bini

  • 1Dipartimento di Chimica dell'Università di Firenze, Polo Scientifico, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|March 16, 2002
PubMed
Resumen

La alta presión desencadena la dimerización del butadieno en vinilciclohexeno. La irradiación láser, sin embargo, promueve la formación de trans-polibutadieno puro, revelando una vía de reacción química selectiva.

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