A chemical system that mimics decoding operations.
The chemical information stored in equilibrium mixtures of molecular species is larger than the sum of information carried by the individual molecules. Protonation equilibria in dilute dichloromethane solution of a shape-persistent macrocycle bearing two 2,2'-bipyridine units and two Coumarin 2 moieties (see figure) can be exploited to mimic decoding operations.
Giansante
Carlo
C
Dipartimento di Chimica G. Ciamician, Università di Bologna, Via Selmi 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
Ceroni
Paola
P
Venturi
Margherita
M
Sakamoto
Junji
J
Schlüter
A Dieter
AD