Hydrogen-bonded molecular aggregates design

The recognition of hydrogen bonds is an indispensable tool for designing molecular aggregates, in the field of crystal engineering29 as well as in the fields of supramolecular chemistry. 

D. N. Chin, J. A. Zerkowski, J. C. MacDonald and G M. Whitesides, Strategies for the design and assembly of hydrogen-bonded aggregates in the solid state, in J. K. Whitesell (ed.), Organised Molecular Assemblies in the Solid State, Wiley, Chichester, 1999. 

In addition to the function of ordered hydrogen bonded arrays in the biological cell [42], the design of new materials is closely connected with the organised self-assembly of supramolecular structures [43]. The physical and chemical properties of molecular aggregates depend on the nature of the constituent molecules as well as on the manner in which the molecules assemble in the solid state. This is because the properties and architectural features of the supramole-... 

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