Tilting a ground-state reactivity landscape by vibrational strong coupling
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires · +2 more institutions
Abstract
Many chemical methods have been developed to favor a particular product in transformations of compounds that have two or more reactive sites. We explored a different approach to site selectivity using vibrational strong coupling (VSC) between a reactant and the vacuum field of a microfluidic optical cavity. Specifically, we studied the reactivity of a compound bearing two possible silyl bond cleavage sites-Si-C and Si-O, respectively-as a function of VSC of three distinct vibrational modes in the dark. The results show that VSC can indeed tilt the reactivity landscape to favor one product over the other. Thermodynamic parameters reveal the presence of a large activation barrier and substantial changes to the…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 57.82
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 49
Authors
11- ATAnoop ThomasCorresponding
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg
- LLLucas Lethuillier‐Karl
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg
- KNKalaivanan Nagarajan
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg
- RMRobrecht M. A. Vergauwe
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg
- JGJino George
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg
Topics & keywords
- Ground state
- Reactivity (psychology)
- Coupling (piping)
- State (computer science)
- Physics
- Atomic physics
- Materials science
- Computer science