Tatiana’s Paper Accepted

Congrats to Tatiana, whose paper “Combined constant force and constant velocity single molecule force spectroscopy of the conrotatory ring opening reaction of benzocyclobutene” has been accepted for publication in ChemPhysChem as part of a special section on mechanochemistry.  The paper shows that the kinetics extracted from force clamp and constant velocity single molecule force spectroscopy experiments provide a consistent picture of the rate of a conrotatory ring opening reaction as a function of applied force.  In addition, a new kinetic analysis of the constant velocity data provides a useful mechanism for visualizing the rate-vs.-force information contained in the force-extension curves.