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By comparison of experimental and theoretical CD curves the absolute configurations of chromatographically baseline-separated enantiomers of new trefoil molecular knots could be determined. From the results of syntheses with differently substituted starting materials, conclusions can be drawn about the knot-formation mechanism.
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Vögtle et al. (2001) studied this question.
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