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The article discusses molecular recognition and overviews the key concepts -storage and retrieval of chemical information by molecular structures, supramolecular reagents and catalysts, molecular transport, semiochemistry and self assembly. The prospects of controlling supramolecular architecture through engineered molecular recognition and design of ‘programmed systems’ controlled by molecular information are also discussed.
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Lehn, JM. Supramolecular chemistry. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Chem. Sci.) 106, 915–922 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02841907
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