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Construction of the first cross-linked double helical polyiodide
Caitlin J Horn1, Alexander J Blake, Neil R Champness
1School of Chemistry, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK NG7 2RD.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 19, 2003
Abstract:
A homobimetallic supramolecular helicate has been used to template the formation of a polyiodide network which adopts an infinite cross-linked double helical structure, topologically analogous to DNA.