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Frontispiece: Self‐Assembly through Noncovalent Preorganization of Reactants: Explaining the Formation of a Polyfluoroxometalate
Author(s) -
Schreiber Roy E.,
Avram Liat,
Neumann Ronny
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201880264
Subject(s) - monomer , kinetic energy , tungsten , chemistry , reactivity (psychology) , non covalent interactions , nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy , chemical physics , computational chemistry , crystallography , molecule , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , polymer , physics , hydrogen bond , alternative medicine , pathology , quantum mechanics , medicine
Self‐assembly processes from simple compounds to complicated but thermodynamically stable products are hard to predict and difficult to explain by classical kinetic theory. By following the self‐assembly formation process of a polyfluoroxometalate containing 18 tungsten atoms from monomeric starting materials by NMR and mass spectroscopy, in their Full Paper on page 369 ff., R. Neumann and colleagues explain product formation by pre‐organization of the reactants in a dense phase where reactivity can be fitted to a deterministic kinetic model.