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Inside Back Cover: “Helix‐in‐Helix” Superstructure Formation through Encapsulation of Fullerene‐Bound Helical Peptides within a Helical Poly(methyl methacrylate) Cavity (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 3/2017)
Author(s) -
Ousaka Naoki,
Mamiya Fumihiko,
Iwata Yoshiaki,
Nishimura Katsuyuki,
Yashima Eiji
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201612286
Subject(s) - moiety , helix (gastropod) , supramolecular chemistry , crystallography , triple helix , circular dichroism , materials science , stereochemistry , chemistry , polymer chemistry , crystal structure , ecology , snail , biology
Helical wrapping of C 60 ‐bound helical peptides by a syndiotactic poly(methyl methacrylate) (st‐PMMA) chain results in induction of a preferred handed helical conformation in the st‐PMMA backbone with the same handedness as the peptide. In their Communication on page 791 ff., E. Yashima and co‐workers report a novel approach to construct a unique supramolecular helix‐in‐helix structure through encapsulation of optically active helical peptides bearing the C 60 moiety at one end within the st‐PMMA cavity; the encapsulation results from a molecular carrier effect of the C 60 moiety.