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Hydrogen bonds can create order, even a type of order that may be used in the development of new materials. This was possible with the terpyridine 1, which is conformationally hindered by its two trimethylene bridges. In the solid state it has an α-helical structure in which the CO2Et groups project outwards at regular intervals.
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