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Synthesis of Information-bearing Peptoids and their Sequence-directed Dynamic Covalent Self-assembly
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Assembly-driven synthesis of hybrid molecular capsules controlled by chiral sorting
Michał Wierzbicki1, Agnieszka Szumna
1Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 3, 2013
Abstract:
Chiral capsules with polar interiors (reversed capsules) undergo heterochiral sorting and exhibit positive mutalism - both hemispheres mutually benefit from the association. This feature can be coupled with partial reversibility of the formation reaction and utilized to amplify synthesis of hybrid capsules made of hemispheres that cannot be formed independently.
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