Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Self-assembled Receptors

Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Self-assembled Receptors 

The synthesis and isolation of many of these receptors proved to be quite tedious, however, although occasionally convergent strategies could be used. We therefore looked for an alternative way to build up such structures and decided to make use of self-assembly processes of metal complexes [4] to build up self assembled oligo(BINOL) analogs [5], (How similar metal complexes can be used to stabilize peptide microstructures is discussed in Chapter 1.3.) 

With the aggregates and the covalent analog available we started to evaluate the potential of these structures to act as receptors for monosaccharides in organic 

The solubility of the coordination complexes of 11 and its covalent analog 12 proved to be much higher in organic solvents, however, so we could start to per- 

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