Guanine quartets: structure and application

Abstract

This book summarises recent advances in the field, with an emphasis on those resulting from European researchers brought together by Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action MP0802 "Self-assembled guanosine structures for molecular electronic devices". This network was established in an effort to explore the basic principles of guanosine-assembly, to understand and predict the folding of G-rich oligonucleotides into G-quadruplexes, to synthesize new optimised materials, and to explore guanosine-based materials as possible nanoarchitectures for molecular electronic devices.