One-Pot Reactions. Covalent Self-Assembly Based on Preorganization

4 One-Pot Reactions. Covalent Self-Assembly Based on Preorganization 

Both in nature and in test tubes many complicated reactions take place with apparent ease. Highly specific enzymatic reactions involving complementarity of substrate and receptor both with respect to their spatial structure and electrostatic fields lie outside the scope of this book. Here we would like only to mention a few 

Monolayers discussed in Section 4.2 also introduce order preorganizing molecules. An analogous photochemical reaction making use of this phenomenon was carried out in diacetylene monolayers on gold [47b]. At present most one-pot reactions are of no practical importance. However, their occurence in prostaglandin synthesis [48] indicates that they will find their applications leading to more environmentally clean technologies. 

-M Lehn. Supramolecular Chemistry Concepts and Perspectives. VCH. Weinheim, 1995, 

We believe that one can, eventually, speak about the function of a molecular assembly in a 

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