Reversible mechanical protection: building a 3D %22suit" around a T-shaped benzimidazole axle

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Reversible mechanical protection: building a 3D "suit" around a T-shaped benzimidazole axle

Giorgio Baggi, Stephen J. Loeb, Kelong Zhu, V. Nicholas Vukotic

A benzimidazole molecule can be protected from deprotonation with strong base by converting into a suit[1]ane - a type of 3D mechanically interlocked molecule. Utilising a combination of ring-closing and ring-opening metathesis, the wearing of the protective "suit" can be made reversible.

Publisher URL: http://feeds.rsc.org/~r/rss/SC/~3/PMbYLEWOtYw/C7SC00790F

DOI: 2017/SC/C7SC00790F

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