Mimicking enzymatic systems: modulation of the performance of polymeric organocatalysts by ion-specific effects

Yun Xu; Zan Hua; Jian Zhang; Jun Yang; Zhonglin Cao; Dongyang Zhang; Lingxin He; Vincent S. J. Craig; Guangzhao Zhang; Guangming Liu

doi:10.1039/C5CC09959E

Mimicking enzymatic systems: modulation of the performance of polymeric organocatalysts by ion-specific effects†

Yun Xu,^a Zan Hua,^a Jian Zhang,^a Jun Yang,^a Zhonglin Cao,^a Dongyang Zhang,^a Lingxin He,^a Vincent S. J. Craig,^b Guangzhao Zhang^c and Guangming Liu*^a

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^a Department of Chemical Physics, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, P. R. China
E-mail: gml@ustc.edu.cn

^b Department of Applied Mathematics, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

^c Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Abstract

Like natural enzymatic systems, our study has demonstrated that the activity of the polymeric organocatalysts can be modulated by ion-specific effects via the combination of anion-specific salting-in/out effects and anion-specific polarization of hydrogen bonding induced stabilization of the transition state.

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Mimicking enzymatic systems: modulation of the performance of polymeric organocatalysts by ion-specific effects†

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