On the Right “Track” to Artificial Assemblers

The design of synthetic analogs to biological molecular machines offers a new vista for chemists. In this issue of Chem, McTernan et al. report an artificial synthesizer reminiscent of natural assemblers. This molecular machine is capable of forming sequence-defined oligomers by the Wittig reaction, a transformation not found in nature.

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