Title: Self-assembly of double helical, triple helical and deoxyribonucleo-helicate architectures
Abstract: Supramolecular chemistry 11,21, the chemistry of noncovalent intermolecular interactions, is essential for biological processes such as molecular recognition, catalysis and transport. In biology, such interactions rely on the use of more or less preorganized molecular receptors. Can chemists go one step beyond preorganization by designing systems that can undergo molecular self-organization, in other words systems capable of spontaneously generating a well-defined supramolecular architecture by self-assembly from their components in a given set of conditions? To do this the molecular information necessary for the process to take place and the program that it follows must be stored in the components and operate according to an algorithm based on molecular recognition events. Thus, these systems may be termed programmed supramolecular systems u].
Publication Year: 1994
Publication Date: 1994-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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