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Chiral Nanotubes
Organic nanotubes, as assembled nanospaces, in which to carry out host–guest chemistry, reversible binding of smaller species for transport, sensing, storage or chemical transformation purposes, are currently attracting substantial interest, both as biological ion channel mimics, or for addressing t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5535233/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28677640 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano7070167 |
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author | Nitti, Andrea Pacini, Aurora Pasini, Dario |
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description | Organic nanotubes, as assembled nanospaces, in which to carry out host–guest chemistry, reversible binding of smaller species for transport, sensing, storage or chemical transformation purposes, are currently attracting substantial interest, both as biological ion channel mimics, or for addressing tailored material properties. Nature’s materials and machinery are universally asymmetric, and, for chemical entities, controlled asymmetry comes from chirality. Together with carbon nanotubes, conformationally stable molecular building blocks and macrocycles have been used for the realization of organic nanotubes, by means of their assembly in the third dimension. In both cases, chiral properties have started to be fully exploited to date. In this paper, we review recent exciting developments in the synthesis and assembly of chiral nanotubes, and of their functional properties. This review will include examples of either molecule-based or macrocycle-based systems, and will try and rationalize the supramolecular interactions at play for the three-dimensional (3D) assembly of the nanoscale architectures. |
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spelling | pubmed-55352332017-08-04 Chiral Nanotubes Nitti, Andrea Pacini, Aurora Pasini, Dario Nanomaterials (Basel) Review Organic nanotubes, as assembled nanospaces, in which to carry out host–guest chemistry, reversible binding of smaller species for transport, sensing, storage or chemical transformation purposes, are currently attracting substantial interest, both as biological ion channel mimics, or for addressing tailored material properties. Nature’s materials and machinery are universally asymmetric, and, for chemical entities, controlled asymmetry comes from chirality. Together with carbon nanotubes, conformationally stable molecular building blocks and macrocycles have been used for the realization of organic nanotubes, by means of their assembly in the third dimension. In both cases, chiral properties have started to be fully exploited to date. In this paper, we review recent exciting developments in the synthesis and assembly of chiral nanotubes, and of their functional properties. This review will include examples of either molecule-based or macrocycle-based systems, and will try and rationalize the supramolecular interactions at play for the three-dimensional (3D) assembly of the nanoscale architectures. MDPI 2017-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5535233/ /pubmed/28677640 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano7070167 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Nitti, Andrea Pacini, Aurora Pasini, Dario Chiral Nanotubes |
title | Chiral Nanotubes |
title_full | Chiral Nanotubes |
title_fullStr | Chiral Nanotubes |
title_full_unstemmed | Chiral Nanotubes |
title_short | Chiral Nanotubes |
title_sort | chiral nanotubes |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5535233/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28677640 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano7070167 |
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