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Controlled incorporation of water molecules into carboxy hydrogen-bond networks: a designed approach
Cirilo Pérez1, Matías L Rodríguez, Concepción Foces-Foces
1Instituto de Bioorgánica, Universidad de La Laguna, CSIC, Crta. Vieja de La Esperanza, 2, 38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
Organic Letters
|February 28, 2003
Abstract:
The incorporation of water molecules into the hydrogen-bonded pattern of condensed organic materials implies an unfavorable entropic tradeoff resulting from water ordering. Here we show for a family of diacids of general structure (+/-)-1 that extended chains of anhydrous or hydrated structures can be prepared by controlling the steric factors that lead to the closest packing of individual components.