Covalent adhesion; organic reactivity at a solid–solid interface through an inter-bead Diels–Alder reaction†

Abstract

Polystyrene resin beads carrying respectively maleimide and anthracene groups attached to extended side-chains adhere to one another in a manner consistent with an inter-bead cycloaddition reaction.

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