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Formation of Ordered Biomolecular Structures by the Self-assembly of Short Peptides
Published on: November 21, 2013
Straight from the bottle! Wine and juice dicarboxylic acids as templates for supramolecular cage self-assembly
Federico Begato1, Roberto Penasa1, Giulia Licini1
1Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy. cristiano.zonta@unipd.it.
Abstract:
Two imine based supramolecular cages are able to self-assemble in the presence of a complex mixture like wine or fruit juices. Taking advantage of templating agents present in these mixtures the systems are able to form and to selectively encapsulate dicarboxylic systems present in the mixtures. This capability has been exploited to develop molecular systems able to report the enantiomeric excess and composition of (a)chiral dicarboxylic acids in fruit juices and wines using 1H-NMR.
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