TY - JOUR
T1 - Noncovalent synthesis of self-assembled nanotubes through decoupled hierarchical cooperative processes
AU - Vázquez-González, Violeta
AU - Mayoral, Maria J.
AU - Chamorro, Raquel
AU - Hendrix, Marco M.R.M.
AU - Voets, Ilja K.
AU - González-Rodríguez, David
PY - 2019/10/16
Y1 - 2019/10/16
N2 - Because of their wide number of biological functions and potential applications, self-assembled nanotubes constitute highly relevant targets in noncovalent synthesis. Herein, we introduce a novel approach to produce supramolecular nanotubes with defined inner and outer diameters from rigid rod-like monomers programmed with complementary nucleobases through two distinct, decoupled cooperative processes of different hierarchy and acting in orthogonal directions: chelate cooperativity, responsible for the formation of robust Watson-Crick H-bonded cyclic tetramers, and nucleation-growth cooperative polymerization.
AB - Because of their wide number of biological functions and potential applications, self-assembled nanotubes constitute highly relevant targets in noncovalent synthesis. Herein, we introduce a novel approach to produce supramolecular nanotubes with defined inner and outer diameters from rigid rod-like monomers programmed with complementary nucleobases through two distinct, decoupled cooperative processes of different hierarchy and acting in orthogonal directions: chelate cooperativity, responsible for the formation of robust Watson-Crick H-bonded cyclic tetramers, and nucleation-growth cooperative polymerization.
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U2 - 10.1021/jacs.9b07868
DO - 10.1021/jacs.9b07868
M3 - Article
C2 - 31507182
SN - 0002-7863
VL - 141
SP - 16432
EP - 16438
JO - Journal of the American Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the American Chemical Society
IS - 41
ER -