What is it about?
Self-assembling of carboxylic acids provides different types of assemblies from directional hydrogen bonds. In this case a study on carefully chosen cocrystals of dicarboxylic acid provided the scope to understand consequence of competition to form homo-dimeric assemblies and hetero-dimeric assemblies.
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Why is it important?
If a molecule designated as A forms non-covalently linked assembly AA and another molecule B forms BB; then an attempt to synthesize non-covalent assembly AB there will be guided by competition to form AB, AA and BB. In this study it is shown that energetic of each pair is important and the homo-dimeric sub-assembly of host can hold homo-dimeric sub-assembly of guest or discrete units of guest to make 1:1 or 1:2 cocrystals.
Perspectives
This provides understanding on fundamentals for pre-designed multi-components non-covalent synthesis.
Professor Jubaraj Bikash Baruah
IIT Guwahati
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This page is a summary of: Different carboxylic acid homodimers in self-assemblies of adducts of 3-carboxyphenoxyacetic acid with nitrogen containing compounds, Journal of Chemical Sciences, April 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s12039-016-1071-7.
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