The canonical behavior of the entropic component of thermodynamic effective molarity. An attempt at unifying covalent and noncovalent cyclizations.

This review article is concerned with the measurement, significance and applications of the concept of effective molarity (EM) in a large variety of cyclization reactions ranging from the formation of giant macromolecules in polymeric equilibrates to the self-assembly of cyclic supermolecules and supramolecular aggregates. Based on a dissection of EM into enthalpic and entropic components (EM = EM