Novel approaches towards the generation of excited triplets of organic guest molecules with zeolites

Abstract

Alkali metal cation-exchanged zeolites (M⁺X or M⁺Y) can be used as ‘microreactors’ in which to carry out photochemical rearrangement reactions of organic guests.

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