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Self-assembling Morphologies Obtained from Helical Polycarbodiimide Copolymers and Their Triazole Derivatives
Published on: February 7, 2017
Helical aquatubes of calix[4]arene di-methoxycarboxylic acid
Adina N Lazar1, Nathalie Dupont, Alda Navaza
1Assemblages Moléculaires d'Intérêt Biologique (UMR CNRS 5086), Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, 7 passage du Vercors, F-69367 Lyon, France.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|March 4, 2006
Abstract:
Two trimeric units of calix[4]arene di-methoxycarboxylic acid form a six-pointed star architecture that, in turn, generates triple helical aquatubes which intermesh between themselves by aromatic-aromatic interdigitation of the macrocycle.
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