Double helix quinine-based supergelator
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Kinga Roszak1, Monika Piasecka, Andrzej Katrusiak
1Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89b, 61-614 Poznań, Poland. karol.kacprzak@gmail.com.
Soft Matter
|December 25, 2015
Abstract:
10,11-Didehydroquinine is a simple, low molecular weight supergelator which forms, in nonpolar media, stable chiral organogels composed of unique double-helix nano-sized fibers. A novel gelation mechanism involves a hydrogen bonding network formed by an acidic alkyne proton of the Cinchona gelator and the carbonyl group of ethyl acetate used as a solvent.

