From Synthetic Macromolecules to Biological-Like Complex
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Virgil Percec
The Wonder of Life in Its Chemical Aspect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
David A. Tirrell
Crosslinking with Hermann Staudinger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Fred Wudl
Another Important 60th Anniversary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Nadrian C. Seeman
Coordination-Driven Supramolecular Macromolecules via the
Directional Bonding Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Timothy R. Cook and Peter J. Stang
Bridging Polymer Science and Medicine Through Supramolecular
Nanoassemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Horacio Cabral and Kazunori Kataoka
Stereochemical Studies at the Herman F. Mark Polymer
Research Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Mark M. Green
Mechanically Interlaced and Interlocked Donor–Acceptor
Foldamers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Carson J. Bruns and J. Fraser Stoddart
Probing Macromolecular and Supramolecular Structure,
Dynamics, and Function by Magnetic Resonance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Hans Wolfgang Spiess
Twenty-First Century Polymer Science After Staudinger:
The Emergence of Dendrimers/Dendritic Polymers as a Fourth
Major Architecture and Window to a New Nano-periodic System . . . . . . 321
Donald A. Tomalia
Helical Polymers for Efficient Enantiomer Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Yoshio Okamoto
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
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Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Virgil Percec
The Wonder of Life in Its Chemical Aspect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
David A. Tirrell
Crosslinking with Hermann Staudinger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Fred Wudl
Another Important 60th Anniversary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Nadrian C. Seeman
Coordination-Driven Supramolecular Macromolecules via the
Directional Bonding Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Timothy R. Cook and Peter J. Stang
Bridging Polymer Science and Medicine Through Supramolecular
Nanoassemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Horacio Cabral and Kazunori Kataoka
Stereochemical Studies at the Herman F. Mark Polymer
Research Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Mark M. Green
Mechanically Interlaced and Interlocked Donor–Acceptor
Foldamers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Carson J. Bruns and J. Fraser Stoddart
Probing Macromolecular and Supramolecular Structure,
Dynamics, and Function by Magnetic Resonance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Hans Wolfgang Spiess
Twenty-First Century Polymer Science After Staudinger:
The Emergence of Dendrimers/Dendritic Polymers as a Fourth
Major Architecture and Window to a New Nano-periodic System . . . . . . 321
Donald A. Tomalia
Helical Polymers for Efficient Enantiomer Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Yoshio Okamoto
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
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