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Title: Single Turnover at Molecular Polymerization Catalysts Reveals Spatiotemporally Resolved Reactions

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Abstract Multiple active individual molecular ruthenium catalysts have been pinpointed within growing polynorbornene, thereby revealing information on the reaction dynamics and location that is unavailable through traditional ensemble experiments. This is the first single‐turnover imaging of a molecular catalyst by fluorescence microscopy and allows detection of individual monomer reactions at an industrially important molecular ruthenium ring‐opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) catalyst under synthetically relevant conditions (e.g. unmodified industrial catalyst, ambient pressure, condensed phase, ca. 0.03  m monomer). These results further establish the key fundamentals of this imaging technique for characterizing the reactivity and location of active molecular catalysts even when they are the minor components.

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  1. Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
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1836176
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OSTI ID: 1394671
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SC0016467
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Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Angewandte Chemie (International Edition)
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Journal Name: Angewandte Chemie (International Edition); Journal Volume: 56; Journal Issue: 44; Related Information: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1002%2Fanie.201708284&file=anie201708284-sup-0001-misc_information.pdf; Journal ID: ISSN 1433-7851
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Wiley
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United States
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English
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37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; fluorescence microscopy; molecular catalysts; reaction mechanisms; single molecules

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Easter, Quinn T., and Blum, Suzanne A. Single Turnover at Molecular Polymerization Catalysts Reveals Spatiotemporally Resolved Reactions. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1002/anie.201708284.
Easter, Quinn T., & Blum, Suzanne A. Single Turnover at Molecular Polymerization Catalysts Reveals Spatiotemporally Resolved Reactions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201708284
Easter, Quinn T., and Blum, Suzanne A. Mon . "Single Turnover at Molecular Polymerization Catalysts Reveals Spatiotemporally Resolved Reactions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201708284. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1836176.
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title = {Single Turnover at Molecular Polymerization Catalysts Reveals Spatiotemporally Resolved Reactions},
author = {Easter, Quinn T. and Blum, Suzanne A.},
abstractNote = {Abstract Multiple active individual molecular ruthenium catalysts have been pinpointed within growing polynorbornene, thereby revealing information on the reaction dynamics and location that is unavailable through traditional ensemble experiments. This is the first single‐turnover imaging of a molecular catalyst by fluorescence microscopy and allows detection of individual monomer reactions at an industrially important molecular ruthenium ring‐opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) catalyst under synthetically relevant conditions (e.g. unmodified industrial catalyst, ambient pressure, condensed phase, ca. 0.03  m monomer). These results further establish the key fundamentals of this imaging technique for characterizing the reactivity and location of active molecular catalysts even when they are the minor components.},
doi = {10.1002/anie.201708284},
journal = {Angewandte Chemie (International Edition)},
number = 44,
volume = 56,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 11 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Mon Sep 11 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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