Donor-acceptor pretzelanes and a cyclic bis[2]catenane homologue

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 44, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 3050-3055

  Liu, Yi ^a   Bonvallet, Paul A ^a,b   Vignon, Scott A ^a   Khan, Saeed I ^a   Stoddart, J Fraser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b 931 College Mall   (United States)

Author keywords

Catenanes; Molecular devices; Pretzelanes; Self assembly; Template synthesis

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ETHERS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SWITCHES;

CYCLOPHANE; MACROCYCLIC POLYETHER; MOLECULAR SWITCHES; PARTIAL PIROUETTING;

POLYETHERS;

EID: 18844385484     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200500041     Document Type: Article

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