Premium
Supramolecular Ladders from Dimeric Cucurbit[6]uril
Author(s) -
Wittenberg James B.,
Zavalij Peter Y.,
Isaacs Lyle
Publication year - 2013
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.201300404
Subject(s) - supramolecular chemistry , chemistry , cucurbituril , random hexamer , crystallography , cationic polymerization , stereochemistry , supramolecular assembly , combinatorial chemistry , crystal structure , polymer chemistry
Climbing the cucurbit ladder : Cucurbit[6]uril dimers (connected gray cylinders; see scheme) were prepared by condensation of glycoluril hexamer with the appropriate tetraaldehydes. The self‐assembly process between these dimers and oligoviologen compounds (blue) in water leads to a supramolecular ladder with the dimensions and molecular weight typical of small proteins.