Template synthesis of organic microtubules

Organic microtubules have recently caused a great deal of excitement in the physics, chemistry, and materials science communities. Such tubules are inherently intriguing chemical systems and have myriad proposed technolgical applications; they may also be useful as mimics of biological microtubules....

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Published in:Journal of the American Chemical Society 1990-11, Vol.112 (24), p.8976-8977
Main Authors: Martin, Charles R, Van Dyke, Leon S, Cai, Zhihua, Liang, Wenbin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
360601 - Other Materials- Preparation & Manufacture
Applied sciences
AZOLES
CELL CONSTITUENTS
CHEMICAL PREPARATION
DATA
ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
Exact sciences and technology
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
INFORMATION
MATERIALS SCIENCE
MICROSCOPY
MICROTUBULES
NUMERICAL DATA
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
Physicochemistry of polymers
Polymerization
Polymers and radiations
PYRROLES
SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
SYNTHESIS
VOLTAMETRY
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Summary:Organic microtubules have recently caused a great deal of excitement in the physics, chemistry, and materials science communities. Such tubules are inherently intriguing chemical systems and have myriad proposed technolgical applications; they may also be useful as mimics of biological microtubules. The only known synthetic route for preparing organic microtubles involves extremely expensive reagents and produces tubules with a broad range of diameters and lengths. The authors have recently discovered a new method for synthesizing organic microtubules. This method uses a microporous membrane as a template during tubule synthesis. The most significant advantage of this template method is that it yields tubules with monodisperse diameters and lengths. They describe this template synthetic method in this paper.
ISSN:0002-7863
1520-5126
DOI:10.1021/ja00180a050