Optimizing Biomimetic Gelators Constructed from Amino Acid Building Blocks
- 18 April 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Organic Chemistry
- Vol. 72 (10), 3937-3940
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jo070317i
Abstract
This paper reports the use of a range of amino acids to construct diverse gelators, employing structures in which Boc-protected amino acids are attached to either end of an aliphatic diamine spacer chain. The choice of amino acid determines whether nanoscale self-assembly takes place and controls the properties of the resultant material, while the function of the amino acid (e.g., the optical properties of tryptophan) is translated into the self-assembled nanostructured gel.Keywords
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