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Cooperative supramolecular helical assembly of a pyridinium-tailored methyl glycyrrhetate
Yuxia Gao1, Jie Hao1, Jindan Wu1
1Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. juyong@tsinghua.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Taking a natural triterpenoid as the building block, we have regulated a pyridinium-functionalized methyl glycyrrhetate (C4-MGP) into P-type helices in water primarily driven by hydrophobic forces. By analysing their temperature-dependent CD and UV-Vis spectra, these hierarchical chiral assemblies were found to be formed in a cooperative supramolecular polymerization manner.
