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Spontaneous Knotting—From Oligoamide Threads to Trefoil Knots
Author(s) -
Brüggemann Jens,
Bitter Stephan,
Müller Sonja,
Müller Walter M.,
Müller Ute,
Maier Norbert M.,
Lindner Wolfgang,
Vögtle Fritz
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200601938
Subject(s) - trefoil , thread (computing) , physics , computer science , biology , programming language , agronomy
Tying up loose ends : Oligoamide thread molecules can spontaneously transform into open knots, whose terminal functional groups can subsequently be chemically linked to form closed, cyclic knots (see scheme; left: threads; middle: open knots; right: molecular knots; X=N, C).