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. 1998 May 18;37(9):1294-1297.
doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19980518)37:9<1294::AID-ANIE1294>3.0.CO;2-F.

Supramolecular Daisy Chains

Peter R Ashton  1 , Ian Baxter  2 , Stuart J Cantrill  1 , Matthew C T Fyfe  1 , Peter T Glink  1 , J Fraser Stoddart  1 , Andrew J P White  2 , David J Williams  2
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Supramolecular Daisy Chains

Peter R Ashton et al. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. .

Abstract

Our childhoods may be recalled when a self-complementary cation, endowed with both a dibenzo[24]crown-8 macroring and a secondary dialkylammonium sidearm, self-assembles to form a two-component supramolecular architecture that is reminiscent of a daisy chain (depicted schematically on the right). This daisy-chain-like superarchitecture is stabilized by a combination of [N+ -H⋅⋅⋅O] hydrogen bonds and aryl-aryl stacking interactions.

Keywords: Crown compounds; Host-guest chemistry; Noncovalent interactions; Self-assembly; Supramolecular chemistry.

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