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Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Science, 7(14), p. 1769-1774, 2023
DOI: 10.1039/d2sc06411a
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Electric fields drive bond homolysis
Journal article published in 2023 by
Boyuan Zhang 
,
Cedric Schaack ,
Claudia R. Prindle,
Ethan A. Vo,
Miriam Aziz ,
Michael L. Steigerwald,
Timothy C. Berkelbach,
Colin Nuckolls ,
Latha Venkataraman
,
Cedric Schaack ,
Claudia R. Prindle,
Ethan A. Vo,
Miriam Aziz ,
Michael L. Steigerwald,
Timothy C. Berkelbach,
Colin Nuckolls ,
Latha Venkataraman
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Abstract
We demonstrate that electric fields can homolytically cleave a peroxide bond in different solvents with a rate that is proportional to the solvent dielectric constant.