Highly Cooperative Formation of Bis-Urea Based Supramolecular Polymers
Author(s) -
Vesna Šimić,
Laurent Bouteiller,
Matthieu Jalabert
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of the american chemical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.115
H-Index - 612
eISSN - 1520-5126
pISSN - 0002-7863
DOI - 10.1021/ja037589x
Subject(s) - cooperativity , chemistry , supramolecular chemistry , urea , supramolecular polymers , polymer , molecule , polymer chemistry , fourier transform infrared spectroscopy , cooperative binding , organic chemistry , chemical engineering , biochemistry , engineering , enzyme
Eleven bis-ureas have been synthesized, and some of their properties are reported. Several of these compounds form supramolecular polymers in organic solvents. The self-association is shown by FTIR spectroscopy to display cooperativity at two levels. The first level of cooperativity is due to the synergistic association of the two urea functions of a single molecule. The second level of cooperativity is revealed by the fact that the formation of dimers is less favored than that of long oligomers.
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