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Self-Assembly in Chemical Synthesis

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Chemical Synthesis

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More and more chemists are beginning to realise that the conventional synthetic methodology of making compounds group-by-group or molecule-by-molecule, employing reagents or catalysts to make or break covalent bonds and so manipulate functional groups and transform molecular structures, is insufficient by itself to construct the materials they would like to make in the future. Along its many synthetic trails, nature does not rely upon the inefficient use of protecting groups and the complexity of reagents according to the usual manner and practice of the synthetic organic chemist in a traditional sense. Indeed, one of the keys to the efficient operation of biological systems is their ability to self-assemble,1 self-organise2 and self-replicate.3

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Langford, S.J., Fraser Stoddart, J. (1996). Self-Assembly in Chemical Synthesis. In: Chatgilialoglu, C., Snieckus, V. (eds) Chemical Synthesis. NATO ASI Series, vol 320. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0255-8_16

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