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Controlling reactions
with electric fields
AN electric field has been used effectively
as a catalyst in a chemical reaction, in a
breakthrough discovery.
Michelle Coote, a chemistry professor
at the Australian National University, said
it is a “totally new way of thinking about
chemistry”. The team used an electric
field to catalyse the Diels-Alder reaction
that produces a cyclohexene system. This
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