Braiding a molecular knot with eight crossings

Knots may ultimately prove just as versatile and useful at the nanoscale as at the macroscale. However, the lack of synthetic routes to all but the simplest molecular knots currently prevents systematic investigation of the influence of knotting at the molecular level.We found that it is possible to...

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Main Authors: Danon, J, Krüger, A, Leigh, D, Lemonnier, J, Stephens, A, Vitorica-Yrezabal, I, Woltering, S
Format: Journal article
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2017