title: Self-Assembly of Trisoligonucleotidyls: The Case for Nano-Acetylene and Nano-Cyclobutadiene.
abstract: Rapid cooling is the recipe for the self-assembly of nanostructures from trisoligonucleotidyls, a novel class of branched oligonucleotides whose 3'-termini are connected by a trifunctional linker. The topology of the smallest complex is formally equivalent to the topology of acetylene, if a DNA double strand is envisioned as a C-C bond. The model of nano-acetylene is shown.
authors.affiliation: Lehrstuhl für Bioorganische Chemie der Universität, D-44780 Bochum (Germany).
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Scheffler
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dorenbeck
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jordan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wüstefeld
authors.lastname: von Kiedrowski G