Stereospecificity and self-selectivity in the generation of a chiral molecular tetrahedron by metal-assisted self-assembly

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 932-935

  Enemark, Eric J ^a   Stack, T Daniel P ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chirality; Gallium; Self assembly; Supramolecular chemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031971174     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19980420)37:7<932::AID-ANIE932>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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48. Other examples of self-selectivity in self-assembly: R. Krämer, J.-M. Lehn, A. Marquis-Rigault, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 1993, 90, 5394-5398; D. L. Caulder, K. N. Raymond, Angew. Chem. 1997, 109, 1508-1510; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 1997, 36, 1439-1442; M. A. Masood, E. J. Enemark, T. D. P. Stack, ibid. 1998, 110, 973-977 and 1998, 37, 928-932.
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