Iodide-catalysed self-assembly of donor-acceptor [3]catenanes.
Charged donor-acceptor [3]catenanes comprising the pi-accepting cyclobis(paraquat-4,4'-biphenylene) and pi-donating aromatic crown ether macrocycles have been prepared in high yields using thermodynamically controlled dynamic nucleophilic substitution.
Patel
Kaushik
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California NanoSystems Institute and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Miljanić
Ognjen S
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Stoddart
J Fraser
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