title: Principles of sequence-recognition in aromatic polyimides.
abstract: Pyrene-based molecular tweezers show sequence-specific binding to aromatic polyimides through sterically-controlled donor-acceptor pi-stacking and hydrogen bonding; (1)H NMR spectra of tweezer-complexes with polyimides having different sequence-restrictions show conclusively that the detection of long range sequence-information results from multiple tweezer-binding at adjacent imide residues.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AD, UK. h.m.colquhoun@rdg.ac.uk
authors.forename: Howard M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Colquhoun
authors.forename: Zhixue
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Christine J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Cardin
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gan