A hetero-stranded double helix composed of m-diethynylbenzene-based complementary molecular strands stabilized by amidinium-carboxylate salt bridges

Zong-Quan Wu; Yoshio Furusho; Hidekazu Yamada; Eiji Yashima

doi:10.1039/c0cc03952g

A hetero-stranded double helix composed of m-diethynylbenzene-based complementary molecular strands stabilized by amidinium-carboxylate salt bridges

Chem Commun (Camb). 2010 Dec 21;46(47):8962-4. doi: 10.1039/c0cc03952g. Epub 2010 Oct 25.

Authors

Zong-Quan Wu¹, Yoshio Furusho, Hidekazu Yamada, Eiji Yashima

Affiliation

¹ Department of Molecular Design and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan.

PMID: 20976318
DOI: 10.1039/c0cc03952g

Abstract

A hetero-stranded double helix with a controlled helix sense was designed and synthesized from an optically active dimeric amidine and its complementary achiral dicarboxylic acid strand with conjugated m-diethynylbenzene backbones, being stabilized by the salt bridges.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Amidines / chemistry*
Carboxylic Acids / chemistry*
Circular Dichroism
Dimerization
Molecular Conformation
Salts / chemistry
Stereoisomerism

Substances

Amidines
Carboxylic Acids
Salts