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Nomenclature of catenanes and rotaxanes
Looking at the IUPAC Blue Book, I noticed that the words “catenane”, “rotaxane” (or “interlocked”, “mechanical bond”, …) do not appear within the rules of nomenclature. Given that a catenane or ...
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Molecular knots absolute configuration
How is the absolute configuration of chiral molecular knots determined? What rules should be applied? For centrochiral compounds, the CIP rules are applied, for axially chiral is described here and ...
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