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Synfacts 2008(12): 1285-1285  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1087311
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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An H-Bond Tetrameric Rosette

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Fei Wang
A. Asadi, B. O. Patrick, D. M. Perrin*
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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20 November 2008 (online)

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Reported was the synthesis and assembly of a self-complementary guanine-­cytosine heterocyclic molecule. The central pyrrol ring keeps the DDA-AAD faces at precisely 90º, thus facilitating the self-assembly of such molecules into a tetrameric rosette. The structure of the H-bond tertramer was verified by ESI-MS, variable temperature ¹H NMR spectroscopy and DOSY.