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Supramolecular Chemistry of Bile Acid Derivatives: Formation of Gels
Author(s) -
Babu Ponnusamy,
Sangeetha Neralagatta M.,
Maitra Uday
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
macromolecular symposia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-3900
pISSN - 1022-1360
DOI - 10.1002/masy.200650909
Subject(s) - pyrene , bile acid , supramolecular chemistry , chemistry , chirality (physics) , aqueous solution , molecule , organic chemistry , combinatorial chemistry , biochemistry , chiral symmetry breaking , physics , quantum mechanics , nambu–jona lasinio model , quark
This article describes some of the exciting results obtained during the study of the gelation behavior of bile acid derivatives in the authors laboratory. The serendipitous discovery of charge‐transfer interaction promoted gelation of organic solvents by (steroid)pyrene derivatives/TNF is presented. In this class of molecules, the effect of the location of the chiral center in chiral gelators on the overall chirality of the aggregates in the gel was studied. Also described are the aggregation behavior of bile acid based aqueous gelators which led us to postulate design principals to obtain bile acid based aqueous/organogelators.