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The concepts of multistep processes and regioselectivity — fundamental in covalent synthesis — have now been applied to the non-covalent synthesis of sequence-controlled multiblock supramolecular polymers.

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Fig. 1: Multistep non-covalent synthesis of supramolecular concentric toroids.

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