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Spontaneous assembly of a hydrogen-bonded tetrahedron
Jason E Field1, Marianny Y Combariza, Richard W Vachet
1Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|October 26, 2002
Abstract:
Triphenylamine ortho-tricarboxylic acid (1) has been synthesized and the crystal structure reported. This molecule is shown to spontaneously self-assemble into a hydrogen-bonded tetrahedron. Furthermore, Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectroscopy shows evidence for the stability of such aggregates from an ethanol/water solution.