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Molecular and Crystal Engineering: Asymmetric Oligomers for Polar Crystals.

Molecular design is generally employed to tune interesting molecular properties of oligomers. However, crystal symmetry often prevents the expression of the desired macroscopic properties. An elaborate X-ray diffraction study is carried out to rationalise the crystal packing in terms of intermolecular interactions. The higher goal consists of using these interactions as an instrument to engineer the desired supramolecular structure. This is done by introducing functional groups in the molecular structure. By means of this strategy we will attempt to obtain polar crystals.
Date:1 Jan 2009 →  31 Dec 2010
Keywords:STRUCTURE (CHEMICAL), CRYSTALS, OLIGOMERS
Disciplines:Inorganic chemistry, Organic chemistry, Theoretical and computational chemistry, Other chemical sciences