FONDAMENTI DI CHIMICA SUPRAMOLECOLARE

Nature as model: learning how to read molecular and supramolecular instructions (DNA, proteins). Relationship between structure (primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary) and function. Allosterism. Hierarchy of self-assembly and kinetic inertness: thermodynamic and kinetics at work.

Nature of noncovalent interactions. The role of solvent: solubility vs. solvophobicity.

Host-guest chemistry, Self-assembly, supramolecular stereochemistry. Chirality and chiral memory.

Nanomedicine, sensors, switches.

• J.-M. Lehn, Supramolecular Chemistry, VCH
• J. W. Steed and J. L. Atwood, Supramolecular Chemistry, Wiley
• P. D. Beer, P. A. Gale and D. K. Smith Supramolecular Chemistry,OCP

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