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Molecular recognition. Electrostatic effects in supramolecular self-assembly
James D Crowley1, Andrew J Goshe, B Bosnich
1Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, 5735 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|March 5, 2003
Abstract:
A di-positively charged metal-based receptor is shown to form 1:1 or 2:1 association complexes with rigid, linear two-site guests depending on the site separation, suggesting that electrostatic repulsion controls the association nuclearity.