Comment on ‘Self-assembled multiporphyrin arrays mediated by self-complementary quadrupole hydrogen bond motifs’Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: formal derivation of eqn. (1), (2), (3) and (4), and details about the construction of Figs. 1 and 2, and self-assembly of the square. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b1/b101678b/Part 3 of the series Physical Basis of Self-Assembly. Part 2: G. Ercolani, D. Monti and M. Ioele, New J. Chem., 2001, 25, 783.

Abstract

The self-assembly of discrete linear tapes claimed by the title communication is questioned on the basis of a rigorous thermodynamic analysis; moreover the reported thermodynamic data are not consistent with self-assembly of the square.