Chemical Communications

Hydrogen bonding self-assemblies with 1-D linear, dimeric and hexagonal nanostructures of meso-pyridyl-substituted dipyrromethanes

H Maeda, M Hasegawa, A Ueda

Index: Maeda, Hiromitsu; Hasegawa, Masahiro; Ueda, Atsushi Chemical Communications, 2007 , # 26 p. 2726 - 2728

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Abstract

Noncovalent interactions between molecules can result in the formation of versatile supramolecular nanostructures in the solid and solution state. 1 In natural systems, the double helix of DNA is constructed by complementary hydrogen bonding between base pairs, and the high-dimensional structures of proteins are maintained by means of noncovalent interactions between, for example, amide units. 2 With regard to π-conjugated moieties, a pyrrole N unit acts as an ...