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25. Commercial 5-vinyl-2-norbornene as a reversible deactivation chain-transfer monomer in ring-opening metathesis polymerization to produce branched copolymers
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24. Synthesis of cationic cyclic oligo(disulfide)s via cyclo-depolymerization: A redox-responsive and potent antibacterial reagent
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20. Flyby reaction trajectories: Chemical dynamics under extrinsic force
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19. Polarity-tolerant chloride binding in foldamer capsules by programmed solvent-exclusion
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18. Charge transport in sequence-defined conjugated oligomers
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17. Multi-state amine sensing by electron transfers in a BODIPY probe
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16. Architecture-controlled ring-opening polymerization for dynamic covalent poly(disulfide)s
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15. Charge transport and quantum interference effects in oxazole-terminated conjugated oligomers
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14. Chloride capture using a C–H hydrogen bonding cage
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13. Intrachain charge transport through conjugated donor–acceptor oligomers
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12. Allosteric control of photofoldamers for selecting between anion regulation and double-to-single helix switching
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11. Sequence-controlled stimuli-responsive single-double helix conversion between 1:1 and 2:2 chloride-foldamer complexes
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10. Anion-binding macrocycles operate beyond the electrostatic regime: Interaction distances matter
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9. Inchworm movements of two rings switching onto a thread by biased Brownian diffusion represent a three-body problem
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7. A high-yield synthesis and acid-base response of phosphate-templated [3]rotaxanes
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6. Flexibility coexists with shape-persistence in cyanostar macrocycles
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5. Multifunctional tricarbazolo triazolophane macrocycles: One pot preparation, anion binding, and hierarchical self-organization of multilayers
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4. Electrostatic and allosteric cooperativity in ion-pair binding: A quantitative and coupled experiment-theory study with aryl-triazole-ether macrocycles
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3. Macromolecular crystallography for synthetic abiological molecules: Combining xMDFF and PHENIX for structure determination of cyanostar macrocycles
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