Unprecedented gas-phase chiroselective logic gates

Org Biomol Chem. 2011 Mar 21;9(6):1717-9. doi: 10.1039/c0ob00664e. Epub 2011 Jan 31.

Abstract

The gas-phase encounters between 2-aminobutane and proton-bound chiral resorcin[4]arene/nucleoside complexes behave in the gas phase as supramolecular "chiroselective logic gates" by releasing the nucleoside depending on the resorcin[4]arene and the 2-aminobutane configurations.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amines / chemistry
  • Butanes / chemistry
  • Calixarenes / chemistry
  • Gases / chemistry*
  • Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
  • Macrocyclic Compounds / chemistry
  • Molecular Conformation
  • Phenylalanine / analogs & derivatives
  • Phenylalanine / chemistry
  • Stereoisomerism

Substances

  • Amines
  • Butanes
  • Gases
  • Macrocyclic Compounds
  • resorcinarene
  • Calixarenes
  • Phenylalanine