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Rapid One-step Enzymatic Synthesis and All-aqueous Purification of Trehalose Analogues
Published on: February 17, 2017
Self-assembling properties of 6-O-alkyltrehaloses under aqueous conditions
Manami Kanemaru1, Kazuya Yamamoto, Jun-ichi Kadokawa
1Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology, and Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University, 1-21-40 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan.
Abstract:
In this study, we report the self-assembling properties of 6-O-alkyltrehaloses with different chain lengths, that is, octyl, decyl, dodecyl, tetradecyl, and hexadecyl, under aqueous conditions. The materials were synthesized from trehalose via five reaction steps. The scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), and dynamic light scattering (DLS) measurements indicated that the self-assembling property of 6-O-dodecyltrehalose was completely different from that of the other derivatives. The former primarily formed spherical micelles in water, which further assembled into face-centered cubic-based aggregates when dried. The latter derivatives, on the other hand, formed vesicle-type particles via the formation of lamellar-like planes, which further merged with each other, most likely by the fusion of the planes, to construct larger aggregates.
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