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SUBMITTER: Wang J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4698751 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Jun J Bonnesen Peter V PV Rangel E E Vallejo E E Sanchez-Castillo Ariadna A James Cleaves Ii H H Baddorf Arthur P AP Sumpter Bobby G BG Pan Minghu M Maksymovych Petro P Fuentes-Cabrera Miguel M
Scientific reports 20160104
Self-assembly of a nucleoside on Au(111) was studied to ascertain whether polymerization on well-defined substrates constitutes a promising approach for making sequence-controlled polymers. Scanning tunneling microscopy and density functional theory were used to investigate the self-assembly on Au(111) of (RS)-N(9)-(2,3-dihydroxypropyl)adenine (DHPA), a plausibly prebiotic nucleoside analog of adenosine. It is found that DHPA molecules self-assemble into a hydrogen-bonded polymer that grows almo ...[more]