Synthesis and Conformational Study of Water‐Soluble, Rigid, Rodlike Oligopiperidines

An oligomeric backbone of piperidine rings can be synthesized by solution or solid-phase synthesis. These oligomers adopt well-defined, rodlike structures with all the piperidine residues in chair conformations (see picture) both in solution (D2O, CD3OD) and the solid state. Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http://www.wiley-vch.de/contents/jc_2002/2006/z502991_s.pdf or from the author. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.