TY - JOUR
T1 - Design of a Synthetic Foldamer that Modifies the Growth of Calcite Crystals
AU - Estroff, Lara A.
AU - Incarvito, Christopher D.
AU - Hamilton, Andrew D.
PY - 2004/1/14
Y1 - 2004/1/14
N2 - An oligopyridine foldamer, whose structure is dictated by bifurcated hydrogen bonds, was designed to recognize the surface of calcite through three carboxylates, projected from one face of the molecule. At low concentrations of the trimer, elongated calcite crystals with angular, teeth-like growths, identified as {↑0l} faces, were exclusively formed. In the presence of a related monomer, only calcite rhombohedra are formed, indicating that it is the ordered array of carboxylates that causes the morphological changes, via a specific interaction between the foldamer and the newly expressed faces of the growing calcite crystals.
AB - An oligopyridine foldamer, whose structure is dictated by bifurcated hydrogen bonds, was designed to recognize the surface of calcite through three carboxylates, projected from one face of the molecule. At low concentrations of the trimer, elongated calcite crystals with angular, teeth-like growths, identified as {↑0l} faces, were exclusively formed. In the presence of a related monomer, only calcite rhombohedra are formed, indicating that it is the ordered array of carboxylates that causes the morphological changes, via a specific interaction between the foldamer and the newly expressed faces of the growing calcite crystals.
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U2 - 10.1021/ja037614z
DO - 10.1021/ja037614z
M3 - Article
C2 - 14709030
AN - SCOPUS:0346499395
SN - 0002-7863
VL - 126
SP - 2
EP - 3
JO - Journal of the American Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the American Chemical Society
IS - 1
ER -