title: Shape-persistent aromatic amide oligomers: new tools for supramolecular chemistry.
abstract: With an increasing number of folding and helical structures available, chemists have begun to pay greater attention to the functions of this family of structurally unique oligomers. Hydrogen-bonding-mediated aromatic oligoamide foldamers have the features of good structural predictability, synthetic facility, and structural modification, which make them very promising as scaffolds or platforms for supramolecular chemistry. Recent advances in the applications of this class of shape-persistent oligomers in the promoted synthesis of macrocycles, design of new nonring receptors, supramolecular self-assembly, molecular encapsulation, and reaction acceleration, are highlighted in this Focus Review.
authors: State Key Laboratory of Bio-Organic and Natural Products, Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 354 Fenglin Road, Shanghai 200032, China. ztli@mail.sioc.ac.cn
authors: Zhan-Ting
authors: ZT
authors: Li
authors: Jun-Li
authors: JL
authors: Hou
authors: Chuang
authors: C
authors: Li
authors: Hui-Ping
authors: HP
authors: Yi
mesh_terms: D000577:Amides / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry; D002625:Chemistry, Organic / Q000379:methods*; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D047028:Macrocyclic Compounds / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D000577:Amides; D047028:Macrocyclic Compounds; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons