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The Self-Assembly of Redox-Active and Photo-Active Catenanes and Rotaxanes

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Molecular Engineering for Advanced Materials

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The science of supramolecular chemistry1 — the chemistry of the noncovalent bond — has developed rapidly in the last twenty five years, since Charles Pederson2 revealed that the formation of macrocyclic polyethers could be templated by the coordination of the initially acyclic polyether precursor to metal cations, which preorganise the ligand such that cyclisation becomes a favourable and competitive process alongside polymerisation. The previous two decades have revealed that there are three concepts that underpin supramolecular science at a fundamental level. They are:

  1. (i)

    self-assembly,3

  2. (ii)

    self-organisation,4 and

  3. (iii)

    self-replication.5

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Preece, J.A., Stoddart, J.F. (1995). The Self-Assembly of Redox-Active and Photo-Active Catenanes and Rotaxanes. In: Becher, J., Schaumburg, K. (eds) Molecular Engineering for Advanced Materials. NATO ASI Series, vol 456. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8575-0_1

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