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Hydrogel Formation upon Photoinduced Covalent Capture of Macrocycle Stacks from Dynamic Combinatorial Libraries
Author(s) -
Li Jianwei,
Carnall Jacqui M. A.,
Stuart Marc C. A.,
Otto Sijbren
Publication year - 2011
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.201103297
Subject(s) - covalent bond , dynamic covalent chemistry , disulfide bond , self healing hydrogels , chemistry , maxima and minima , nanotechnology , combinatorial chemistry , materials science , polymer chemistry , molecule , organic chemistry , supramolecular chemistry , biochemistry , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Stacks of macrocycles , assembled using reversible disulfide‐bond formation, are covalently captured by photoinitiated exchange of disulfide bonds, inducing the formation of hydrogels (see picture). This strategy allows access to structures beyond the thermodynamic minima traditionally targeted by dynamic combinatorial chemistry.