title: Covalent ladder formation becomes kinetically trapped beyond four rungs.
abstract: Scrambling experiments suggest that the self-assembly of 2D ladders via imine metathesis is kinetically trapped at four or more rungs. Consequently, ladders containing five or more rungs cannot be synthesized in high yield under the conditions used, as misaligned out-of-register byproducts cannot self-correct.
authors: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL, USA.
authors: Erin L
authors: EL
authors: Elliott
authors: C Scott
authors: CS
authors: Hartley
authors: Jeffrey S
authors: JS
authors: Moore