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Nature 451, 897-898 (21 February 2008) | doi:10.1038/451897a; Published online 20 February 2008
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Organic chemistry: Solid awakening
Leonard R. MacGillivray1
Abstract
Once dismissed as chemical graveyards, organic solids can in fact be manipulated to surprising effect: one example is a crystal designed to embark on a remarkable domino-rally of reactions when bathed in light.
A crystal, the chemistry Nobel laureate Leopold Ruzicka is reported to have said1, is a chemical cemetery. Molecules in the solid state occupy the most restrictive of quarters: lying just ångstroms apart, the lively spontaneity of processes such as conformational change, enjoyed by molecules in solution, is largely forbidden to them.
- Leonard R. MacGillivray is in the Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA.
Email: len-macgillivray@uiowa.edu
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