11-Aminoundecanoic acid: a versatile unit for the generation of low molecular weight gelators for water and organic solvents
- 18 November 2003
- journal article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 2,p. 190-191
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b307846a
Abstract
The use of 11-aminoundecanoic acid as a synthetic building-block allows the systematic preparation of (oligo)amide organogelators—including chiral ones—which display remarkable gelation properties in organic solvents and water.Keywords
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