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J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1995, 2563 - 2565, DOI: 10.1039/C39950002563


The thermodynamics of self-assembly

Xianglan Chi, Andrea J. Guerin, Richard A. Haycock, Christopher A. Hunter and Luke D. Sarson


The concentration range over which a self-assembted macrocyclic structure is stable is given by the critical self-assembly concentration (lower limit) and the effective molarity for cyclisation (upper limit); the relationships between these parameters, the size of the assembly and the properties of the component interactions are used to describe the efficiency of self-assembly processes.