Catalytic "click" rotaxanes: A substoichiometric metal-template pathway to mechanically interlocked architectures

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 128, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2186-2187

  Aucagne, Vincent ^a   Hänni, Kevin D ^a   Leigh, David A ^a   Lusby, Paul J ^a   Walker, D Barney ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; MACROCYCLIC COMPOUND; METAL; ROTAXANE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHELATION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYCLOADDITION; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; STOICHIOMETRY;

EID: 33644543734     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja056903f     Document Type: Article

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