Foldamer Organogels: A Circular Dichroism Study of Glucose-Mediated Dynamic Helicity Induction and Amplification
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- 作者：Wei Cai ; Gui-Tao Wang ; Ping Du ; Ren-Xiao Wang ; Xi-Kui Jiang ; Zhan-Ting Li
- 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
- 出版年：2008
- 出版时间：October 8, 2008
- 年：2008
- 卷：130
- 期：40
- 页码：13450-13459
- 全文大小：725K
- 年卷期：v.130,no.40(October 8, 2008)
- ISSN：1520-5126
文摘
This paper reports a systematic study of the dynamic process for the self-assembly of chiral organogels from achiral hydrogen bonded hydrazide foldamers by induction of chiral glucose. Six foldamers incorporated with six decyl chains and two benzene, naphthalene, anthracene, or pyrene units at the ends are revealed to strongly gelate apolar and polar solvents, including alkanes, arenes, esters, alcohols, and 1,4-dioxane. The gels are characterized by UV−vis, fluorescent, XRD, SEM, and AFM methods, based on which a dislocated “tail-to-tail” stacking pattern is proposed. Addition of octylated glucose considerably enhances the capacity of the foldamers to gelate apolar solvents due to strong complexation. The complexation also causes unique dynamic helicity induction in the gels, which is studied systematically by circular dichroism. The results are treated with the Avrami theory according to a reported method (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 4336), which suggests that the gelation involves a nucleation−elongation mechanism. In addition, the “Sergeants and Soldiers” effect in the gel phase is also revealed.