A field guide to foldamers

DJ Hill, MJ Mio, RB Prince, TS Hughes… - Chemical …, 2001‏ - ACS Publications
The breadth of structure and function displayed by the molecules of biology is remarkable.
Considering that there are only three major biopolymer backbones (proteins, ribonucleic …

Synthetic helical polymers: conformation and function

T Nakano, Y Okamoto - Chemical Reviews, 2001‏ - ACS Publications
The high functionalities of naturally occurring macromolecules such as proteins and genes
arise from their precisely ordered stereostructures. 1 In such systems, the helix is often found …

Amplification of chirality in dynamic supramolecular aggregates

ARA Palmans, EW Meijer - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
The quest to understand the origin of chirality in biological systems has evoked an intense
search for nonlinear effects in catalysis and pathways to amplify slight enantiomeric …

Self‐assembling organic nanotubes

DT Bong, TD Clark, JR Granja… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2001‏ - Wiley Online Library
Hollow tubular structures of molecular dimensions perform diverse biological functions in
nature. Examples include scaffolding and packaging roles played by cytoskeletal …

Chiral architectures from macromolecular building blocks

JJLM Cornelissen, AE Rowan, RJM Nolte… - Chemical …, 2001‏ - ACS Publications
In the course of evolution, Nature has developed a multitude of biomacromolecules tailored
to deal with complicated tasks such as information storage, support of tissue, transport, and …

Helical self-assembled polymers from cooperative stacking of hydrogen-bonded pairs

JHKK Hirschberg, L Brunsveld, A Ramzi… - Nature, 2000‏ - nature.com
The double helix of DNA epitomizes this molecule's ability to self-assemble in aqueous
solutions into a complex chiral structure using hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic …

Simultaneous covalent and noncovalent hybrid polymerizations

Z Yu, F Tantakitti, T Yu, LC Palmer, GC Schatz… - Science, 2016‏ - science.org
Covalent and supramolecular polymers are two distinct forms of soft matter, composed of
long chains of covalently and noncovalently linked structural units, respectively. We report a …

Chiroptical regulation of macrocyclic arenes with flip**-induced inversion of planar chirality

T Zhao, W Wu, C Yang - Chemical Communications, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Studies on various macrocyclic arenes have received increasing attention due to their
straightforward syntheses, convenient derivatization, and unique complexation properties …

Supramolecular helices: chirality transfer from conjugated molecules to structures

Y Yang, Y Zhang, Z Wei - Advanced Materials, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Different scales of chirality endow a material with many excellent properties and potential
applications. In this review, using π‐conjugated molecules as functional building blocks …

Synthesis, characterization, and optical properties of monodisperse chiral oligofluorenes

Y Geng, A Trajkovska, D Katsis, JJ Ou… - Journal of the …, 2002‏ - ACS Publications
The first series of monodisperse chiral oligofluorenes was synthesized and characterized.
Chain length was found to play an important role in solid morphology. Whereas dimer …