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In situ synthesis of reduction-responsive organogelators via oxidative coupling of tritylthio-terminated gallic acid derivatives. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2022.128602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Navarro-Barreda D, Angulo-Pachón CA, Galindo F, Miravet JF. Photoreversible formation of nanotubes in water from an amphiphilic azobenzene derivative. Chem Commun (Camb) 2021; 57:11545-11548. [PMID: 34664569 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc04319f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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An anionic azobenzene-appended derivative of L-ValylGlycine self-assembles into nanotubes in water. Irradiation with 365 nm light provokes trans-cis isomerization of the azobenzene unit and subsequent tube disassembly. Thermal or photoinduced (457 nm light) recovery of the trans isomer restores the nanotubes.
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- Diego Navarro-Barreda
- Departamento de Química Inorgánica y Orgánica, Universitat Jaume I, Av. Vicent Sos Baynat s/n, Castellón, 12071, Spain.
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- Departamento de Química Inorgánica y Orgánica, Universitat Jaume I, Av. Vicent Sos Baynat s/n, Castellón, 12071, Spain.
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- Departamento de Química Inorgánica y Orgánica, Universitat Jaume I, Av. Vicent Sos Baynat s/n, Castellón, 12071, Spain.
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- Departamento de Química Inorgánica y Orgánica, Universitat Jaume I, Av. Vicent Sos Baynat s/n, Castellón, 12071, Spain.
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Navarro‐Barreda D, Angulo‐Pachón CA, Bedrina B, Galindo F, Miravet JF. A Dual Stimuli Responsive Supramolecular Gel Provides Insulin Hydrolysis Protection and Redox‐Controlled Release of Actives. MACROMOL CHEM PHYS 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/macp.201900419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- Diego Navarro‐Barreda
- Department of Inorganic and Organic ChemistryUniversity Jaume I 12071 Castelló de la Plana Spain
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- Department of Inorganic and Organic ChemistryUniversity Jaume I 12071 Castelló de la Plana Spain
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- Department of Inorganic and Organic ChemistryUniversity Jaume I 12071 Castelló de la Plana Spain
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- Department of Inorganic and Organic ChemistryUniversity Jaume I 12071 Castelló de la Plana Spain
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- Department of Inorganic and Organic ChemistryUniversity Jaume I 12071 Castelló de la Plana Spain
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Adsorption of Rose Bengal on a self-assembled fibrillar network affords a thermally switchable oxygenation photocatalyst and a thermochromic soft material. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2019.112142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Torres-Martínez A, Angulo-Pachón CA, Galindo F, Miravet JF. In between molecules and self-assembled fibrillar networks: highly stable nanogel particles from a low molecular weight hydrogelator. SOFT MATTER 2019; 15:3565-3572. [PMID: 30951068 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm00252a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The preparation of molecular, non-polymeric nanogels from a low molecular weight hydrogelator is reported. The molecular nanogels are expected to overcome issues associated with the use of polymeric nanogels in biomedicine such as biodegradability, stimuli responsiveness, polydispersity, and batch-to-batch reproducibility. Nanogels formed by compound 1 were reproducibly prepared by sonication of a xerogel in PBS, with a total concentration of ca. 2 mM. The intensity averaged diameter of ca. 200 nm was determined by DLS. Electron microscopy (TEM and cryo-TEM) showed spherical particles. Light scattering (SALS) indicates that water is the main component of the nanoparticles, and the concentration of 1 in the nanogels is ca. 3 mg mL-1. These particles can be considered to constitute an intermediate state between free molecules and self-assembled fibrillar networks. The nanogels present excellent temporal and thermal stability and accessible hydrophobic domains, as demonstrated by the incorporation of the fluorescent dye Nile Red.
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- Ana Torres-Martínez
- Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica, Universitat Jaume I, Avda. Sos Baynat s/n, 12071 Castelló, Spain.
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Deamidation of pseudopeptidic molecular hydrogelators and its application to controlled release. J Colloid Interface Sci 2017; 505:1111-1117. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2017.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2017] [Revised: 06/26/2017] [Accepted: 07/02/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Singh N, Escuder B. Competition versus Cooperation in Catalytic Hydrogelators for anti-Selective Mannich Reaction. Chemistry 2017; 23:9946-9951. [PMID: 28513914 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201701724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Chemical systems find similarities in different sociological and biological processes, in which the entities compete or cooperate for a favorable outcome. The structural and functional adaptations leading to emergent properties, especially in catalysis, are based on factors such as abundance of substrates, stability of the transition state, and structural/functional attributes of catalysts. Proline and acid groups appended to catalytic fibers of two self-sorting hydrogelators compete for the Mannich reaction between aniline, benzaldehyde, and cyclohexanone to give low overall selectivity (anti/syn 77:23). In a sol-gel system of the same molecules, on the other hand, the soluble acid appended molecules tend to cooperate with the fibers of proline-appended catalyst to give improved selectivity (anti/syn 95:5). The available options for the catalytic molecules are to carry out the reaction independently or in cooperation. However, these options are chosen based on the efficiency, selectivity, and mobility of catalysts as a result of their abilities to self-assemble.
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- Nishant Singh
- Department de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica, Universitat Jaume I, Av Sos Baynat, Castellón, 12071, Spain
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- Department de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica, Universitat Jaume I, Av Sos Baynat, Castellón, 12071, Spain
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Yu X, Ge X, Geng L, Lan H, Ren J, Li Y, Yi T. Cyclodextrin-Assisted Two-Component Sonogel for Visual Humidity Sensing. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:1090-1096. [PMID: 28073245 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b04401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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In this work, two naphthalimide-based compounds, 1a and 1b, have been designed and synthesized. Both compounds can form stable two-component gels in n-propanol or n-butanol upon addition of α-cyclodextrin (α-CD) followed by sonication at room temperature. Interestingly, the 1a/α-CD gel is thixotropic and very sensitive to water. Addition of a small amount of water induces rapid gel collapse, allowing further development of the gel as a visual relative humidity sensor. Specificity of the sensor has been confirmed using several approaches, such as scanning electron microscopy and fluorescence, Fourier transform infrared, and 1H NMR spectroscopy experiments. The results show that α-CD acts as a junction for the assembly of 1a or 1b through hydrogen bonding between hydroxyl and amide groups. Upon addition of water, α-CD interacts with the adamantane group of 1a via an incomplete host-guest encapsulation, resulting in the dissociation of the hydrogen-bonding-assisted two-component assembly, accompanied by gel collapse.
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- Xudong Yu
- College of Science and Hebei Research Center of Pharmaceutical and Chemical Engineering, Hebei University of Science and Technology , Yuhua Road 70, Shijiazhuang 050080, PR China
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- College of Science and Hebei Research Center of Pharmaceutical and Chemical Engineering, Hebei University of Science and Technology , Yuhua Road 70, Shijiazhuang 050080, PR China
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- College of Science and Hebei Research Center of Pharmaceutical and Chemical Engineering, Hebei University of Science and Technology , Yuhua Road 70, Shijiazhuang 050080, PR China
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- Department of Chemistry and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Fudan University , 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China
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- College of Science and Hebei Research Center of Pharmaceutical and Chemical Engineering, Hebei University of Science and Technology , Yuhua Road 70, Shijiazhuang 050080, PR China
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- College of Science and Hebei Research Center of Pharmaceutical and Chemical Engineering, Hebei University of Science and Technology , Yuhua Road 70, Shijiazhuang 050080, PR China
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- Department of Chemistry and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Fudan University , 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China
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Singh N, Zhang K, Angulo-Pachón CA, Mendes E, van Esch JH, Escuder B. Tandem reactions in self-sorted catalytic molecular hydrogels. Chem Sci 2016; 7:5568-5572. [PMID: 30034697 PMCID: PMC6021788 DOI: 10.1039/c6sc01268j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2016] [Accepted: 05/06/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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By equipping mutually incompatible carboxylic acid and proline catalytic groups with different self-assembling motives we have achieved self-sorting of the resulting catalytic gelators, namely SucVal8 and ProValDoc, into different supramolecular fibers, thus preventing the acidic and basic catalytic groups from interfering with each other. The resulting spatial separation of the incompatible catalytic functions is found to be essential to achieve one-pot deacetalization-aldol tandem reactions with up to 85% efficiency and 90% enantioselectivity. On the contrary, when SucVal8 was co-assembled with a structurally similar catalytically active hydrogelator (ProVal8), self-sorting was precluded and no tandem catalysis was observed.
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- Nishant Singh
- Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica , Universitat Jaume I , E-12071 Castelló , Spain .
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- Department of Chemical Engineering , Delft University of Technology , Julianalaan 136 , 2628 BL Delft , The Netherlands .
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- Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica , Universitat Jaume I , E-12071 Castelló , Spain .
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- Department of Chemical Engineering , Delft University of Technology , Julianalaan 136 , 2628 BL Delft , The Netherlands .
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- Department of Chemical Engineering , Delft University of Technology , Julianalaan 136 , 2628 BL Delft , The Netherlands .
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- Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica , Universitat Jaume I , E-12071 Castelló , Spain .
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Rohner SS, Ruiz-Olles J, Smith DK. Speed versus stability – structure–activity effects on the assembly of two-component gels. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra01256b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Modifying the peripheral peptides dramatically changes the time required for gelation under ambient conditions, whilst an enthalpy–entropy balance means that as the temperature increases, the thermal stability of the gels is very similar.
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