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Getting organized: A free [2]catenane and its copper complex having forklike mesogens form nanosegregated liquid-crystalline (LC) structures over wide temperature ranges. The ordered arrangement of the free [2]catenane in the LC smectic A phase exerts a significant effect on the conformation of the two macrocycles, which is fixed in the ordered assembled state (see picture).
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Baranoff et al. (2007) studied this question.
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