Supramolecular chemistry (Topical Term)

Work cat.: 00032481: Supramolecular chemistry, 2000.

Facts on File dict. chem. (supramolecular chemistry: a branch of chemistry concerned with the synthesis and study of large molecular structures assembled in a definite pattern and held together by intermolecular bonds; the idea of "self-assembly" (i.e. that the molecules form well-defined structures spontaneously as a result of their geometry and chemical properties) is a particular research interest)

Supramolecular chemistry, 1999: p. 1 (supramolecular chemistry: the multidisciplinary study of new molecular systems whose most important feature is that the components are held together reversibly by intermolecular forces, not by covalent bonds)

Chem. abst.; Hackh chem. dict.; Hawley chem. dict.; McGraw-Hill dict. sci. tech.