Designing Self-Assembled Rosettes: Why Ammeline is a Superior Building Block to Melamine

PETELSKI, ANDRÉ NICOLAI; FONSECA GUERRA, CÉLIA

ChemistryOpen

Jon Wiley and Sons Inc.

Año: 2019 vol. 8 p. 132 - 132

The Front Cover shows a colored pallet of melamine and ammeline tautomers that form hydrogen‐bonded hexameric rosettes. When it comes to self‐assembling capabilities, one of the ammeline structures (red) is shown to be distinctly superior to melamine, both in the gas phase and in water. Quantum chemical computations explain that this is caused by the presence of stronger pair interactions and the manifestation of a large cooperativity effect.More information can be found in the Full Paper by A. N. Petelski and C. Fonseca Guerra. on page 135 in Issue 2, 2019 (DOI: 10.1002/open.201800210).