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and drug delivery systems [12].
pH-Responsive molecular tweezers
A particular case of coordination-responsive systems is when a proton is used as a stimulus leading to pH-responsivesystems with the protonation/deprotonation of the switchable moiety. The conformational switch in these systems is
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Figure 1:
Principle of switchable molecular tweezers.
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development of novel drug nanocarrier assemblies.
Keywords: aqueous self-assembly; pH-responsivesystems; secondary structure; self-assembled nanostructures; solid-phase peptide synthesis; Introduction
The self-assembly of small molecules is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature [1] and also has key
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Scheme 1:
Detailed synthetic scheme for PEP-1. (i) 20% piperidine in DMF, (ii) HBTU, (iii) NMM, (iv) Ac2O/Py/...