Surface Noncovalent Bonding for Rational Design of Hierarchical Molecular Self-Assemblies

International audienceClip chemistry: When a fully deterministic strategy that parallels polymer chemistry is used, mono‐, bi‐, and trifunctional clip‐bearing building blocks form noncovalent surface‐self‐assembled dimers, polymers, and 2D networks, respectively (see scheme). These entities can then be subjected to further higher‐level manipulations, as shown by controlled reorganization (cyclization) of a polymerlike chain around a molecular block