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Attractive arrays

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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Figure 1: Linear arrays of hydrogen bonding interactions.

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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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