Intricate supramolecular rosette demonstrates power of cooperative interactions

An image showing a hexapyridine H-bonded rosette bound inside a nanoring

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Rosette assembles inside porphyrin nanoring when all components are present

Researchers from the UK have made a supramolecular complex comprising hydrogen-bonded rosettes sitting orthogonally inside a porphyrin nanoring.