Stabilities of cooperatively formed cyclic pseudorotaxane dimers

Abstract

Systematic analysis of the stabilities of cyclic pseudorotaxane dimers formed between complimentary homoditopic molecules demonstrates that cooperative cyclic dimerization can be minimized by increasing the length of one component via an aliphatic spacer.

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