A hand-twisted helical crystal based solely on hydrogen bonding†
Abstract
A hand twistable hydrogen bonded two-dimensional plastic crystal, 4-pyridinyl 4-nitrobenzoate hydrate, is obtained from a brittle precursor using a retrosynthetic design strategy based on molecular/supramolecular equivalence.
- This article is part of the themed collection: 1st International Conference on Noncovalent Interactions