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Alexandre Meunier1, Olivier Lebel
1Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7K 7B4.
Organic Letters
|March 31, 2010
Abstract:
Formation of stable glassy phases can be induced through rational design in compounds which otherwise readily crystallize, such as tetraphenylporphyrin, by simple functionalization with moieties known to promote glass formation such as mexylaminotriazine units.
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