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SUMMARY:Polyester-based synthetic information oligomers - Filip Szczypinsk
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DTSTART:20160306T114500Z
DTEND:20160306T120500Z
UID:TALK64918@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Andrew Carlotti
DESCRIPTION:Nature has long inspired chemists to replicate evolutionarily 
 produced molecules. Arguably\, the most important of these are the nucleic
  acids for their ability to store and transfer information by the means of
  duplex formation using Watson-Crick base pairing. Modified DNA strands ha
 ve been prepared in which the phosphate ester synthetic unit\, the recogni
 tion bases and the sugar backbones have all been replaced and these system
 s were found to form stable duplexes. We therefore propose that the exact 
 structure of the aforementioned modules is not crucial for information man
 ipulation through a sequence-selective duplication formation.\nThis talk w
 ill describe a synthetic approach to a new class of polyester molecules\, 
 which were designed to form strong cooperative hydrogen bonds in non-polar
  organic solvents and hence form the basis for a new family of synthetic i
 nformation oligomers.
LOCATION:Winstanley Lecture Theatre
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