Issue 36, 2016
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Chemical Communications

Chaperone gelator for the chiral self-assembly of all proteinogenic amino acids and their enantiomers†

Jie Chen,a   Tianyu Wanga  and  Minghua Liu*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, The People's Republic of China
E-mail: liumh@iccas.ac.cn
Tel: +86-10-82615803

b Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin, P. R. China

Abstract

A concept of a chaperone gelator that can assist non-gelator molecules to form gels is proposed. Such a new gelator was developed and found to tune all the proteinogenic L-amino acids, as well as their enantiomers into supramolecular gels.

Graphical abstract: Chaperone gelator for the chiral self-assembly of all proteinogenic amino acids and their enantiomers

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC01651K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
23 Feb 2016
Accepted
23 Mar 2016
First published
29 Mar 2016

Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 6123-6126

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Chaperone gelator for the chiral self-assembly of all proteinogenic amino acids and their enantiomers

J. Chen, T. Wang and M. Liu, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 6123 DOI: 10.1039/C6CC01651K

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