Title: Visualization of the intermediates in organic catalytic reaction by single-molecule electrical spectroscopy

Authors: Zhibing Tan, Junyang Liu, Wenjing Hong*

Abstract: The capture and characterization of highly reactive and short-lived intermediates in organic catalytic reactions are challenging yet are very important for mechanism elucidation. Recently in Matter, Guo and co-workers employed single-molecule electrical spectroscopy (SMES) to detect the key intermediate and analyze the mechanism of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) catalyzed benzoin reactions.

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