Previous Article Next Article Table of Contents Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.139, No.17, 6234-6241, 2017 DOI10.1021/jacs.7b01814 Export Citation Self-Assembly Can Direct Dynamic Covalent Bond Formation toward Diversity or Specificity Komaromy D, Stuart MCA, Santiago GM, Tezcan M, Krasnikov VV, Otto S Keywords:With the advent of reversible covalent chemistry the study of the interplay between covalent bond formation and noncovalent interactions has become increasingly relevant. Here we report that the interplay between reversible disulfide chemistry and self-assembly can give rise either to molecular diversity, i.e., the emergence of a unprecedentedly large range of macrocycles or to molecular specificity, i.e., the autocatalytic emergence of a single species. The two phenomena are the result of two different modes of self-assembly, demonstrating that control over self-assembly pathways can enable control over covalent bond formation. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
