Deconvolution of Transient Species in a Multivalent Fuel‐Driven Multistep Assembly under Dissipative Conditions.

Multivalent chemical fuel driven transient assembly plays a critical role in biological processes. This inspires chemists to design synthetic systems having transient and dynamic functionalities. However, a detailed understanding about the temporal evolution of each of the intermediate species in a multi‐step assembly under dissipative conditions has not yet been explored. Herein, we have shown under dissipative conditions, how the strength of dissipation can modulate the compositional behavior of each of the intermediate species during their survival period by using kinetic modeling (with Python). We have observed that the appearance and disappearance of intermediates (formed either at the first or penultimate assembly step) are highly non‐linear in nature, and it is possible to trap any of the desired intermediates or a mixture of them of certain compositions at a definite time interval simply by tuning the strength of dissipation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]