Multicolour micropatterning of thin films of dry gels.

Micropatterning of surfaces with several chemicals at different spatial locations usually requires multiple stamping and registration steps. Here, we describe an experimental method based on reaction-diffusion phenomena that allows for simultaneous micropatterning of a substrate with several coloured chemicals. In this method, called wet stamping (WETS), aqueous solutions of two or more inorganic salts are delivered onto a film of dry, ionically doped gelatin from an agarose stamp patterned in bas relief.

N,N'-Bis(2-pyridyl)benzene-1,2-diamine.

Hindered rotation about the partial double C-N bonds between the amine and pyridine moieties in the title molecule, C16H14N4, results in two different conformations of the N-aryl-2-aminopyridine units. One, assuming an E conformation, is involved in a pair of N-H..

Creation of hydrogen bonded 1D networks by co-crystallization of N,N'-bis(2-pyridyl)aryldiamines with dicarboxylic acids.

The preparation and crystal structures of fourteen complexes of N,N'-bis(2-pyridyl)aryldiamines with dicarboxylic acids and two complexes with squaric acid are reported. The recognition between the carboxylic acids and the 2-aminopyridine units occurs through the formation of the cyclic R(2)2 (8) hydrogen bond motif, whereas squaric acid creates the analogous R(2)2 (9) motif. In the 1:1 complexes the cyclic motifs generate infinite hydrogen-bonded 1D networks with the alternating component molecules.

Hydrogen-bonded one-dimensional networks in 1:1 complexes of N,N'-bis(2-pyridyl)aryldiamines with anilic acid.

The 1:1 complexes N,N'-bis(2-pyridyl)benzene-1,4-diamine-anilic acid (2,5-dihydroxy-1,4-benzoquinone) (1/1), C(16)H(14)N(4).C(6)H(4)O(4), (I), and N,N'-bis(2-pyridyl)biphenyl-4,4'-diamine-anilic acid (1/1), C(22)H(18)N(4).C(6)H(4)O(4), (II), have been prepared and their solid-state structures investigated.