Highly cooperative formation of bis-urea based supramolecular polymers.
Eleven bis-ureas have been synthesized, and some of their properties are reported. Several of these compounds form supramolecular polymers in organic solvents. The self-association is shown by FTIR spectroscopy to display cooperativity at two levels. The first level of cooperativity is due to the synergistic association of the two urea functions of a single molecule. The second level of cooperativity is revealed by the fact that the formation of dimers is less favored than that of long oligomers.
Simic
Vesna
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Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères, UMR 7610, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France.
Bouteiller
Laurent
L
Jalabert
Matthieu
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