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Sidhanath Bhosale1, Sheshanath Bhosale, Tianyu Wang
1Institut für Chemie/Organische Chemie, Takustrasse 3, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
Abstract:
Hydrophilic yoctowells (volume = 10-24 L) with OEG walls are introduced, which entrap tobramycin, a tetraamino trisaccharide, in water with a binding constant of 107 M-1 but do not interact with cellobiose. This is in contrast to corresponding hydrophobic yoctowells, which kinetically immobilize cellobiose in water, but do not entrap tobramycin.
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