Two readily accessible synthetic building blocks are shown to form a quadruply hydrogen-bonded heterodimer that exhibits exceptional stability and offers new opportunities for the construction of supramolecular assemblies and polymers.
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Wilson, A. Attractive arrays. Nature Chem 3, 193–194 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.996
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