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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2021

Modifying Woodward-Hoffmann Stereoselectivity Under Vibrational Strong Coupling.

Abhijit Sau, Kalaivanan Nagarajan, Bianca Patrahau, Lucas Lethuillier-Karl, Robrecht M A Vergauwe, Anoop Thomas, Joseph Moran, Cyriaque Genet, Thomas W Ebbesen

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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9 authors.

Abhijit SauUniversity of Strasbourg, CNRS, ISIS & icFRC, 67000, Strasbourg, France.
Kalaivanan NagarajanUniversity of Strasbourg, CNRS, ISIS & icFRC, 67000, Strasbourg, France.
Bianca PatrahauUniversity of Strasbourg, CNRS, ISIS & icFRC, 67000, Strasbourg, France.
Lucas Lethuillier-KarlUniversity of Strasbourg, CNRS, ISIS & icFRC, 67000, Strasbourg, France.
Robrecht M A VergauweUniversity of Strasbourg, CNRS, ISIS & icFRC, 67000, Strasbourg, France.
Anoop ThomasUniversity of Strasbourg, CNRS, ISIS & icFRC, 67000, Strasbourg, France.
Joseph MoranUniversity of Strasbourg, CNRS, ISIS & icFRC, 67000, Strasbourg, France.
Cyriaque GenetUniversity of Strasbourg, CNRS, ISIS & icFRC, 67000, Strasbourg, France.
Thomas W EbbesenUniversity of Strasbourg, CNRS, ISIS & icFRC, 67000, Strasbourg, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3999-1636

Funding

Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-10-EQPX-52-01Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-10-LABX- 0026 CSCAgence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-18-QUAN-0005-01H2020 European Research Council 639170H2020 European Research Council 788482H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions 792101
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Abstract

Vibrational strong coupling (VSC) has recently been shown to change the rate and chemoselectivity of ground-state chemical reactions via the formation of light-matter hybrid polaritonic states. However, the observation that vibrational-mode symmetry has a large influence on charge-transfer reactions under VSC suggests that symmetry considerations could be used to control other types of chemical selectivity through VSC. Here, we show that VSC influences the stereoselectivity of the thermal electrocyclic ring opening of a cyclobutene derivative, a reaction which follows the Woodward-Hoffmann rules. The direction of the change in stereoselectivity depends on the vibrational mode that is coupled, as do changes in rate and reaction thermodynamics. These results on pericyclic reactions confirm that symmetry plays a key role in chemistry under VSC.

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electrocyclic ring openingorbital symmetrypericyclic reactionsstrong couplingWoodward-Hoffmann rules

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PMID33305864
PMCPMC7986062

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