Questions tagged [supramolecular-chemistry]
The supramolecular chemistry tag should be applied to questions pertaining to supramolecular systems, both natural (e.g. biological systems with supramolecular behaviour) and artificial (e.g. man made structures such as molecular knots/machines).
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What is the highest known temperature where micelles exist?
What are the liquids involved in the formation of roughly spherical micelles at highest possible temperatures? What about surfactants? At how high temperatures have micelles been observed ...
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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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Enantiomers in anisotropic achiral chemical environments
Consider a functionalised molecular box or cage which has an electrostatic gradient due to positively charged groups one one of its faces. This environment is achiral as there are reflection ...
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How to find the global minima of a supramolecular complex in computational chemistry?
So this is more of a complex problem, and my masters thesis could greatly benefit if I find an answer to this.
Essentially, I have a supramolecular inclusion complex. There is this molecule A (the ...
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Can benzyne be trapped inside a polycyclic hydrocarbon?
I came across an article in my organic chemistry textbook, which told about how benzyne was trapped within a molecular container and stabilized for short periods of time before undergoing a Diels-...
