Molecular solubilization of fullerene C₆₀ in water by γ-cyclodextrin thioethers

• Hai Ming Wang and
• Gerhard Wenz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1644–1651, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.188

• ][25]. CDs form water-soluble inclusion complexes with many hydrophobic or amphiphilic guest molecules [26], mainly driven by hydrophobic interactions [27]. Among the commercially available CDs, γ-CD with a clear width of d = 0.74 nm [28] is only large enough to partially accommodate C60, which has a

High-affinity multivalent wheat germ agglutinin ligands by one-pot click reaction

• Henning S. G. Beckmann,
• Heiko M. Möller and
• Valentin Wittmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 819–826, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.91

• ’-diacetylchitobiose is a much better inhibitor than GlcNAc, which is in accordance with the association constants determined by solution binding assays [47]. The benzyl triazolyl appendage of C1 further enhances binding by a factor of two, probably due to additional weak hydrophobic interactions. However, introducing

Investigation of the network of preferred interactions in an artificial coiled-coil association using the peptide array technique

• Raheleh Rezaei Araghi,
• Carsten C. Mahrenholz,
• Rudolf Volkmer and
• Beate Koksch

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 640–649, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.71

• hydrophobic interactions between the αβγ-peptide and its natural α-partner. Similarly, the interactions between the peptides on the array and the chimera decrease drastically in sequences presenting the shorter side chains of Val and Ala at a and d positions, compared to mutants with the longer and more bulky

Synthesis and self-assembly of 1-deoxyglucose derivatives as low molecular weight organogelators

• Guijun Wang,
• Hao Yang,
• Sherwin Cheuk and
• Sherman Coleman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 234–242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.31

• class of small molecules that can form reversible supramolecular gels in organic solvents or aqueous solutions [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. Non-covalent interactions such as hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic interactions, and π–π stacking are the main driving forces for the self-assembly of the gelators

• gelators for water or aqueous ethanol mixtures. The monoesters presumably form an extended hydrogen bonding array between the ring oxygen and the free hydroxy groups [36]. For these compounds, the main forces that influence gelation include phenyl ring π–π interactions, hydrogen bonding, and hydrophobic

• interactions of the acyl chains, etc. To further understand the structural influence of the anomeric position of the sugar headgroup on self-assembly, we synthesized analogs using head group 8 [38] (Figure 2), in which the anomeric methoxy group was replaced with a hydrogen atom and contained a similar series

Expanding the gelation properties of valine-based 3,5-diaminobenzoate organogelators with N-alkylurea functionalities

• Hak-Fun Chow and
• Chin-Ho Cheng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 1015–1021, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.114

• to possess gelating ability that covered a wider range of organic solvents, including alcoholic, aromatic, alicyclic hydrocarbon and polar solvents. Furthermore, attachment of longer aliphatic chains not only enhanced hydrophobic interactions between the organogelators, but also prevented

Differences between β-Ala and Gly-Gly in the design of amino acids-based hydrogels

• Andreea Pasc,
• Firmin Obounou Akong,
• Sedat Cosgun and
• Christine Gérardin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 973–977, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.109

• properties were related to hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic interactions and π-π stacking. Herein, β-Ala-His-EO2-Alk was fully characterised by FT-IR, NMR, SAXS and SEM and the gelation mechanism is discussed. It appears that the number of amide groups determines the self-assembling behaviour into 1D or 2D/3D

• solvents, and a hydrophobic domain for van der Waals or hydrophobic interactions (Figure 1). They are able to entrap a large number of solvent molecules per one gelator molecule. Herein the gelators were designed as AA-His-EO2-Alk, bearing i) an hydrophobic alkyl group, ii) a polar peptide group with

Pyridinium based amphiphilic hydrogelators as potential antibacterial agents

• Sayanti Brahmachari,
• Sisir Debnath,
• Sounak Dutta and
• Prasanta Kumar Das

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 859–868, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.101

• hydrophobic interactions is mandatory for any gelation process. Non-covalent interactions such as hydrogen bonding, ionic interactions, π–π stacking or van der Waals forces play a pivotal role in self-assembled gelation [12]. Tuning the structure of gelator molecules leads to a better understanding of the

• simply a macroscopic manifestation of the self-assembled aggregation at the molecular level due to the optimum combination of hydrophilic and hydrophobic interactions between molecules [12]. The formation, nature and morphology of these supramolecular 3D-networks are primarily dictated by the

Novel multi-responsive P2VP-block-PNIPAAm block copolymers via nitroxide-mediated radical polymerization

• Cathrin Corten,
• Katja Kretschmer and
• Dirk Kuckling

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 756–765, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.89

• interact with the water molecules associated with polar or hydrophobic polymer segments [44]. Hence, driving forces for inter- and intramolecular hydrophobic interactions are increased leading to a decrease in the stability of the NIPAAm polymers, which then tend to form larger aggregates. The protonated

Synthesis of a novel analogue of DPP-4 inhibitor Alogliptin: Introduction of a spirocyclic moiety on the piperidine ring

• Arumugam Kodimuthali,
• Padala Lakshmi Prasunamba and
• Manojit Pal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 71, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.71

• ring could potentially occupy the nearby empty space to enhance the hydrophobic interactions with DPP-4, the required orientation of the aminopiperidine motif of C to form an effective salt bridge to Glu205/Gul206 was probably perturbed. This could be the reason for observed lower potency of C in

RAFT polymers for protein recognition

• Alan F. Tominey,
• Julia Liese,
• Sun Wei,
• Klaus Kowski,
• Thomas Schrader and
• Arno Kraft

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 66, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.66

• Coulomb attraction and hydrophobic interactions [2]. A statistical evaluation of crystal structures led to the discovery that hot spots in protein–protein contact areas are enriched in aromatic amino acids and in arginine. These are often surrounded by energetically less important residues that most

Molecular recognition of organic ammonium ions in solution using synthetic receptors

• Andreas Späth and
• Burkhard König

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 32, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.32

• , hydrophobic interactions or reversible covalent bond formation. In this review we discuss the different classes of synthetic receptors for organic ammonium ion recognition and illustrate the scope and limitations of each class with selected examples from the recent literature. The molecular recognition of

• are used to enhance further the binding and selectivity with a binding mechanism that can be understood on the combined efforts of several non-covalent interactions such as hydrogen bonding, electrostatic interactions, hydrophobic interactions [20][21][22], cation–π interactions, π–π staking

Self-association of an indole based guanidinium-carboxylate-zwitterion: formation of stable dimers in solution and the solid state

• Carolin Rether,
• Wilhelm Sicking,
• Roland Boese and
• Carsten Schmuck

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 3, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.3

• molecules that assemble even in polar solvents is still a challenging task despite all the progress made in this field in recent years. The use of metal-ligand coordination and hydrophobic interactions has proven especially useful in this context [5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. We are interested in developing self