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Integrating replication processes with mechanically interlocked molecular architectures
Vidonne, Annick,Philp, Douglas
, p. 8464 - 8475 (2008/12/22)
A kinetic model for the integration of self-replication with the formation of a mechanically interlocked molecular architecture, namely a rotaxane, is presented. The logical steps required to convert this model into molecular structures through consideration of the design criteria highlighted by the model are discussed and executed. Ultimately, despite careful design, the rotaxane synthesised did not replicate as expected. The reasons for this failure are traced by experiment and computation to the sub-optimal association constant for the pseudorotaxane complex required to form the replicating rotaxane. Additionally, a deleterious supramolecular steric effect, operating through the proximity of the macrocyclic component of the pseudorotaxane to the transition state for the stoppering reaction is identified computationally.
13C NMR studies of p-substituted nitrosobenzenes
Al-Tahou, Baheeja M.,Gowenlock, Brian G.
, p. 353 - 355 (2007/10/02)
The 13C NMR spectra of a wide range of monomeric para-substituted nitrosobenzenes have been determined end the results related to a wide range of published data for other para-disubstituted benzenes.It is shown that the nitroso substituent exercises a different pattern of effect for the 13C chemical shifts at the ipso C atom from at least twenty eight other substituents.It is noted that when the para substituent is a ?-donor, the nitroso group functions in a different manner from that operative when the para substituent is a ?-acceptor, a general possibility that has already been suggested in the recent literature.
