Molecular tectonics: complex architecture by self-assembly processes

作者：Hosseini Mir Wais^*

来源：Actualite Chimique, 2011, 348-49: 36-40.

• Molecular tectonics
• supramolecular chemistry
• crystal
• molecular networks
• self-assembly

Molecular tectonics: complex architecture by self-assembly processes Molecular tectonics, an approach at the intersection between supramolecular chemistry and molecular solid state chemistry, deals with the formation of molecular networks, large size periodic architectures, in the crystalline phase. This approach exploits iterative recognition events between complementary tectons (active construction units) for the formation of complex architecture by self-assembly processes. This approach, by considering a crystal as a hypermolecule, not only permits to analyse and describe crystals as molecular networks, but in addition, allows to conceive molecular networks by the design of tectons and assembling nodes which are recognition motifs between them.

• 出版日期2011-2