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Chem Commun (Camb)
; 46(2): 225-7, 2010 Jan 14.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-20024333
ABSTRACT
Cucurbit[8]uril (as low as 10 mol%) acts as a supramolecular catalytic nanoreaction vessel and facilitates the photodimerization of coumarins in water leading to syn dimers. Saturation kinetics shows a sigmoidal dependence with a turnover number of 3.4 min(-1) and a Hill constant of 1.8 indicating a co-operative mechanism in the catalytic process.