How to Free the Free Radicals from the Carboxyl's Trap? (IMAGE)

University of Science and Technology of China

How to Free the Free Radicals from the Carboxyl's Trap?

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Free radical, the Monkey King is bound by the "big mountain" of the carboxyl group. The mainstream photocatalytic systems are complex and costly. The novel catalyst uses a new mechanism to combine the cheap catalyst with the carboxyl group, pushes the redox reaction cycle, and easily sets free the "free radicals."

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Jie Cui, USTC News Center,

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