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Host in translation

Length- and chirality-matching between polycarbamate templates and polyamide hosts provide a means of translating structural information from one molecule to another.

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Figure 1: Translating one polymer into another.

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Clayden, J. Host in translation. Nature Nanotech 12, 403–404 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2017.19

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