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Yue Sun1, Yuxiao Mei1, Jiaxin Quan1
1Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology (CCNU), Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, P. R. China. tiandm@mail.ccnu.cn.
Abstract:
Herein, we reported a new strategy based on self-assembly chemistry for chiral discrimination of glucose on a new S-mandelic acid-appended calix[4]arene (S-MC4) modified nanostructure, which exhibits macroscopic chiral preference for d-glucose via contact angle measurements (CA). The proposed macroscopic chiral device displays rapidly remarkable specificity and is convenient to use, which should be suitable for diagnostic purposes, nanomedical applications, etc.
