A Hermaphrodite Molecule: Quantitative Copper(I)-Directed Formation of a Doubly Threaded Assembly from a Ring Attached to a String We are grateful to Jean-Daniel Sauer for high-field NMR experiments and to Raymond Hubert and Hélène Nierengarten for MS measurements. We also gratefully acknowledge the help of Prof. Jean Fischer and Dr. Nathalie Kyritsakas (Laboratoire de Cristallochimie et de Chimie Structurale, Université Louis Pasteur). M.C.J. thanks the European Commission for a Grant (TMR Contract No. ERBFMBICT972547)
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