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The concepts of multistep processes and regioselectivity — fundamental in covalent synthesis — have now been applied to the non-covalent synthesis of sequence-controlled multiblock supramolecular polymers.

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Fig. 1: Multistep non-covalent synthesis of supramolecular concentric toroids.

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Vantomme, G. Site selectivity steps in. Nat. Chem. 15, 894–895 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-023-01237-7

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