Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 58(51), p. 11677-11680, 2015
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc03197d
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We report on the synthesis and self-assembly of three novel lipophilic guanosine derivatives exposing a ferrocene moiety on the C(5’) position of the sugar unit. Their self-association in solution, and at the solid/liquid interface, can be tuned by varying the size and nature of the C(8)-substituent, leading to the generation of either G-ribbons, lamellar G-dimer based arrays or the G4 cation-free architectures.