Bartosz M. Matysiak

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Abstract Fuelled chemical systems have considerable functional potential that remains largely unexplored. Here we report an approach to transient amide bond formation and use it to harness chemical energy and convert it to mechanical motion by integrating dissipative self-assembly and the Marangoni effect in a source–sink system. Droplets are formed through dissipative self-assembly following the reaction of octylamine with 2,3-dimethylmaleic anhydride.

Introduction Reaction monitoring is a fundamental necessity for chemists to successfully understand the examined process in more detail, enabling optimization, mechanistic investigation and scale-up.1-6 Over the years, many methodologies were established to probe the kinetic behavior of chemical reactions. Traditional methods focus on initial rate measurements, which determine various kinetic parameters using only the early linear portion of a kinetic trace.