Table 3.

Montmorillonite-catalysed synthesis versus theoretical random synthesis in the ImpA–ImpC reaction (Miyakawa & Ferris 2003).

mers	catalysed synthesis		random synthesis
isomers observed	proportions isomers of mer (%)	isomers predicted	yield of each isomer (%)
2	8	0.6–39	8	13
3	10	1.1–48	32	3.1
4	5	5.5–34	128	0.78
5	4	4.3–13	512	0.20