 Since the advent of their discipline, organic chemists have sought to imitate biology through synthesis. This challenge combines four themes: chemical structure, function, size, and molecular shape. While structure and function are better understood, size and shape remain challenging. So far, chemists have not succeeded at making well-defined molecules as large as those found in biology.the highest molecular-weight structurally precise synthetic polymer, a polystyrene, has a mass of only 40 MDa, a tiny fraction of the size of the largest DNA molecules. The control of shape in large synthetic molecules is even less advanced. This feat is routine for biology.even the simplest organisms have welldefined shapes, as exemplified by the rodlike tobacco mosaic virus (TMV). Indeed, to the chemist, the TMVis a paragon: a massive supramolecule with perfect control of chemical structure, function, size, and molecular shape. We report herein a dendronized polymer that approximates the size and cylindrical shape of the TMV, thus advancing these chemical frontiers.
for LaTeX users @article{BZhang2011-50,
author = {B. Zhang and R. Wepf and K. Fischer and M. Schmidt and S. Besse and P. Lindner and B. T. King and R. Sigel and P. Schurtenberger and Y. Talmon and Y. Ding and M. Kr\"oger and A. Halperin and A. D. Schl\"uter},
title = {The largest synthetic structure with molecular precision: Towards a molecular object},
journal = {Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.},
volume = {50},
pages = {737-740},
year = {2011}
}
\bibitem{BZhang2011-50} B. Zhang, R. Wepf, K. Fischer, M. Schmidt, S. Besse, P. Lindner, B.T. King, R. Sigel, P. Schurtenberger, Y. Talmon, Y. Ding, M. Kr\"oger, A. Halperin, A.D. Schl\"uter,
The largest synthetic structure with molecular precision: Towards a molecular object,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. {\bf 50} (2011) 737-740.BZhang2011-50
B. Zhang, R. Wepf, K. Fischer, M. Schmidt, S. Besse, P. Lindner, B.T. King, R. Sigel, P. Schurtenberger, Y. Talmon, Y. Ding, M. Kr\"oger, A. Halperin, A.D. Schl\"uter
The largest synthetic structure with molecular precision: Towards a molecular object
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.,50,2011,737-740 |
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