The self-assembly of a lipophilic guanosine nucleoside into polymeric columnar aggregates: The nucleoside structure contains sufficient information to drive the process towards a strikingly regular polymer

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 388-395

  Mezzina, Elisabetta ^a   Mariani, Paolo ^b   Itri, Rosangela ^c   Masiero, Stefano ^a   Pieraccini, Silvia ^a   Spada, Gian Piero ^a   Spinozzi, Francesco ^b   Davis, Jeffery T ^d   Gottarelli, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Guanine; Liquid crystals; Neutron scattering; Nucleobases; Supramolecular chemistry

Indexed keywords

3',5' DIDECANOYL 2' DEOXYGUANOSINE; ALKALI METAL; ALKYL GROUP; BIOPOLYMER; DEOXYRIBOSE; GUANINE DERIVATIVE; GUANOSINE; GUANOSINE DERIVATIVE; HYDROCARBON; IONOPHORE; METAL ION; NUCLEOSIDE; ORGANIC SOLVENT; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFORMATION; LIPOPHILICITY; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYMERIZATION;

BIOPOLYMERS; GUANOSINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 0035910440     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-3765(20010119)7:2<388::AID-CHEM388>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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