Environmentally Responsive Molecular Baskets: Unimolecular Mimics of Both Micelles and Reversed Micelles

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2004-08-01
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Ryu, Eui-Hyun
Zhao, Yan
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When four facially amphiphilic cholate derivatives are attached to a tetraaminocalixarene scaffold, the resulting molecule responds to environmental changes by rotation of the cholate units. In polar solvents, the molecule adopts a micellelike conformation with the hydrophilic α-faces of the cholates pointing outward. In nonpolar solvents, it turns inside out, assuming a reversed micellelike conformation with the hydrophobic β-faces pointing outward. Switching between the two conformations is driven by solvophobic interactions and is fully reversible.

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Reprinted (adapted) with permission from Organic Letters (2004): 3187, doi:10.1021/ol048679p. Copyright 2004 American Chemical Society.

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