{"OA_type":"gold","author":[{"last_name":"Zhang","first_name":"Boyuan","full_name":"Zhang, Boyuan"},{"full_name":"Schaack, Cedric","last_name":"Schaack","first_name":"Cedric"},{"full_name":"Prindle, Claudia R.","last_name":"Prindle","first_name":"Claudia R."},{"full_name":"Vo, Ethan A.","first_name":"Ethan A.","last_name":"Vo"},{"full_name":"Aziz, Miriam","last_name":"Aziz","first_name":"Miriam"},{"full_name":"Steigerwald, Michael L.","first_name":"Michael L.","last_name":"Steigerwald"},{"first_name":"Timothy C.","last_name":"Berkelbach","full_name":"Berkelbach, Timothy C."},{"last_name":"Nuckolls","first_name":"Colin","full_name":"Nuckolls, Colin"},{"last_name":"Venkataraman","first_name":"Latha","orcid":"0000-0002-6957-6089","id":"9ebb78a5-cc0d-11ee-8322-fae086a32caf","full_name":"Venkataraman, Latha"}],"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"publication_identifier":{"issn":["2041-6520"],"eissn":["2041-6539"]},"publisher":"Royal Society of Chemistry","article_processing_charge":"Yes","oa_version":"Published Version","volume":14,"issue":"7","intvolume":"        14","quality_controlled":"1","title":"Electric fields drive bond homolysis","publication_status":"published","doi":"10.1039/d2sc06411a","main_file_link":[{"url":"https://europepmc.org/article/pmc/pmc9931054","open_access":"1"}],"article_type":"original","citation":{"ieee":"B. Zhang <i>et al.</i>, “Electric fields drive bond homolysis,” <i>Chemical Science</i>, vol. 14, no. 7. Royal Society of Chemistry, pp. 1769–1774, 2023.","apa":"Zhang, B., Schaack, C., Prindle, C. R., Vo, E. A., Aziz, M., Steigerwald, M. L., … Venkataraman, L. (2023). Electric fields drive bond homolysis. <i>Chemical Science</i>. Royal Society of Chemistry. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1039/d2sc06411a\">https://doi.org/10.1039/d2sc06411a</a>","ista":"Zhang B, Schaack C, Prindle CR, Vo EA, Aziz M, Steigerwald ML, Berkelbach TC, Nuckolls C, Venkataraman L. 2023. Electric fields drive bond homolysis. Chemical Science. 14(7), 1769–1774.","ama":"Zhang B, Schaack C, Prindle CR, et al. Electric fields drive bond homolysis. <i>Chemical Science</i>. 2023;14(7):1769-1774. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1039/d2sc06411a\">10.1039/d2sc06411a</a>","mla":"Zhang, Boyuan, et al. “Electric Fields Drive Bond Homolysis.” <i>Chemical Science</i>, vol. 14, no. 7, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2023, pp. 1769–74, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1039/d2sc06411a\">10.1039/d2sc06411a</a>.","chicago":"Zhang, Boyuan, Cedric Schaack, Claudia R. Prindle, Ethan A. Vo, Miriam Aziz, Michael L. Steigerwald, Timothy C. Berkelbach, Colin Nuckolls, and Latha Venkataraman. “Electric Fields Drive Bond Homolysis.” <i>Chemical Science</i>. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2023. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1039/d2sc06411a\">https://doi.org/10.1039/d2sc06411a</a>.","short":"B. Zhang, C. Schaack, C.R. Prindle, E.A. Vo, M. Aziz, M.L. Steigerwald, T.C. Berkelbach, C. Nuckolls, L. Venkataraman, Chemical Science 14 (2023) 1769–1774."},"_id":"17866","date_published":"2023-01-16T00:00:00Z","publication":"Chemical Science","oa":1,"extern":"1","year":"2023","date_updated":"2024-11-25T15:01:40Z","date_created":"2024-09-06T12:59:45Z","external_id":{"pmid":["36819847"]},"OA_place":"publisher","day":"16","page":"1769-1774","pmid":1,"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Electric fields have been used to control and direct chemical reactions in biochemistry and enzymatic catalysis, yet directly applying external electric fields to activate reactions in bulk solution and to characterize them ex situ remains a challenge. Here we utilize the scanning tunneling microscope-based break-junction technique to investigate the electric field driven homolytic cleavage of the radical initiator 4-(methylthio)benzoic peroxyanhydride at ambient temperatures in bulk solution, without the use of co-initiators or photochemical activators. Through time-dependent ex situ quantification by high performance liquid chromatography using a UV-vis detector, we find that the electric field catalyzes the reaction. Importantly, we demonstrate that the reaction rate in a field increases linearly with the solvent dielectric constant. Using density functional theory calculations, we show that the applied electric field decreases the dissociation energy of the O–O bond and stabilizes the product relative to the reactant due to their different dipole moments."}],"status":"public","type":"journal_article","month":"01","user_id":"68b8ca59-c5b3-11ee-8790-cd641c68093d"}