The hydrogen bond rigidified backbones of aromatic oligoamides are temporarily interrupted by replacing the amide hydrogens with the acid-labile 2,4-dimethoxybenzyl (DMB) group, which allows the efficient preparation of long folding oligomers that, upon removal of the DMB groups, fold into multiturn helices. [structure: see text]
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