Abstract
It's just an illusion: Above a critical chain length, where oligomers contain five or more recognition units, apparently infinite donor-acceptor polypseudorotaxanes are formed in the solid state (see picture). X-ray crystallographic analyses of three different examples have shown that although the oligomeric chains are undoubtedly discrete and monodisperse, they nevertheless appear to be infinite in the crystal.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 7231-7235 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition |
Volume | 51 |
Issue number | 29 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 16 2012 |
Keywords
- Donor-acceptor systems
- Polymers
- Polypseudorotaxanes
- Structure elucidation
- Supramolecular polymers
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Catalysis
- General Chemistry
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CCDC 872022: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
Zhu, Z. (Creator), Li, H. (Creator), Liu, Z. (Creator), Lei, J. (Creator), Zhang, H. (Creator), Botros, Y. Y. (Creator), Stern, C. L. (Creator), Sarjeant, A. A. (Creator), Stoddart, J. F. (Creator) & Colquhoun, H. M. (Creator), Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, 2012
DOI: 10.5517/ccy8drb, http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/services/structure_request?id=doi:10.5517/ccy8drb&sid=DataCite
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CCDC 872023: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
Zhu, Z. (Creator), Li, H. (Creator), Liu, Z. (Creator), Lei, J. (Creator), Zhang, H. (Creator), Botros, Y. Y. (Creator), Stern, C. L. (Creator), Sarjeant, A. A. (Creator), Stoddart, J. F. (Creator) & Colquhoun, H. M. (Creator), Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, 2012
DOI: 10.5517/ccy8dsc, http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/services/structure_request?id=doi:10.5517/ccy8dsc&sid=DataCite
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CCDC 872024: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
Zhu, Z. (Creator), Li, H. (Creator), Liu, Z. (Creator), Lei, J. (Creator), Zhang, H. (Creator), Botros, Y. Y. (Creator), Stern, C. L. (Creator), Sarjeant, A. A. (Creator), Stoddart, J. F. (Creator) & Colquhoun, H. M. (Creator), Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, 2012
DOI: 10.5517/ccy8dtd, http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/services/structure_request?id=doi:10.5517/ccy8dtd&sid=DataCite
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