Cage escape (IMAGE)

University of Basel

Cage escape

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Radicals generated by light can only unfold their reactivity as soon as they break out of a kind of "cage" that the solvent forms around them. Researchers in Basel show how to make this "cage escape" more successful and how it leads to more efficient photochemistry.

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University of Basel, Jo Richers

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