Self-association of facially amphiphilic methylene bridged glycoluril dimers

Organic Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 20, 2001, Pages 3221-3224

  Isaacs, Lyle ^a   Witt, Dariusz ^a,b   Lagona, Jason ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENEUREA; ALKYNE; CARBENE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HYDROCARBON; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; METHANE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DIMERIZATION; HYDROGEN BOND; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALKYNES; DIMERIZATION; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEN BONDING; IMIDAZOLES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METHANE; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0035807541     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol016561s     Document Type: Article

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