Inside Cover: Ordering and Stabilization of Metal–Organic Coordination Chains by Hierarchical Assembly through Hydrogen Bonding at a Surface (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 46/2008)

✍ Scribed by Alexander Langner; Steven L. Tait; Nian Lin; Rajadurai Chandrasekar; Mario Ruben; Klaus Kern

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 460 KB
• Volume: 47
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.200890234

✦ Synopsis

Selective interactions …

… impose a structural hierarchy during self-assembly and are key for rational tailoring of the supramolecular architecture, according to S. L. Tait, and co-workers in their Communication on page 8835 ff. A labile 1D copper-bipyridine coordination system (blue in the STM topographs) is stabilized and ordered through cooperative assembly with terephthalic acid (red) to produce well-ordered self-assembled nanostructures.