Mechanically Interlocked Molecules

Rotaxanes, catenanes, and molecular knots.


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Mechanically Interlocked Molecules — Rotaxanes, catenanes, and molecular knots. This page is a placeholder while frontier-paper sourcing is deferred to a follow-up OpenAlex wave.

The topic sits in the Charted science tree as a child of chemistry/supramolecular-chemistry and will be expanded once curated primary sources have been gathered. A foundational reference for this area is Supramolecular Chemistry (Steed and Atwood, 2009).

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  • textbook · primary · 2009
    Supramolecular Chemistry
    steed-2009, atwood-2009

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