Self-assembly of a bis-urea macrocycle into a columnar nanotube.
A bis-urea macrocycle 1 was synthesized and shown to form extended nanotubular columns by X-ray crystallography.
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University of South Carolina, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Columbia, SC 29208, USA. shimizul@mail.chem.sc.edu
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