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Self-assembling Morphologies Obtained from Helical Polycarbodiimide Copolymers and Their Triazole Derivatives
Published on: February 7, 2017
Self-association of facially amphiphilic methylene bridged glycoluril dimers
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA. li8@umail.umd.edu
Abstract:
[structure: see text] Facially amphiphilic derivatives of methylene bridged glycoluril dimers are a versatile model system for systematic studies of self-assembly in water. Thorough physical organic characterization, including analytical ultracentrifugation, a technique rarely used in synthetic self-assembly studies, allows us to conclude that this class of molecules undergoes hydrophobically driven self-association to yield tightly associated discrete dimeric assemblies.

