Mechanical bond formation by radical templation

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 49, Issue 44, 2010, Pages 8260-8265

  Li, Hao ^a   Fahrenbach, Albert C ^a   Dey, Sanjeev K ^a   Basu, Subhadeep ^a   Trabolsi, Ali ^a,e   Zhu, Zhixue ^a   Botros, Youssry Y ^b,c,d   Stoddart, J Fraser ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ CITY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Electrochemistry; Radical dimerization; Rotaxanes; Self assembly; Template directed synthesis

Indexed keywords

BIPYRIDINES; CYCLOBIS(PARAQUAT-P-PHENYLENE); ELECTRON-TRANSFER; INCLUSION COMPLEX; MECHANICAL BONDS; RADICAL CATIONS; RADICAL DIMERIZATION; RADICAL INTERACTIONS; ROTAXANES; TEMPLATE-DIRECTED SYNTHESIS; TEMPLATION; TRIETHANOLAMINES; VIOLOGENS;

DIMERIZATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; RUTHENIUM; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 78249272655     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201004488     Document Type: Article

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