Functionality, complementary

Lehn and Rotello s groups extensively studied diacyldiaminopyridines that form triple hydrogen bonded associated structures with uracil and thymine groups (Gulik-Krzywicki et al. 1993 Carroll et al. 2003 Stubbs and Week 2003 Sanyal et al. 2004). lUian et al. (2000) studied the formation of vesicles from mixtures of randomly functionalized complementary copolymers containing thymine groups and... 

One such assay is based on the synthesis of adenosine 3 ,5 -cydic monophosphate (cAMP) by adenylate cyclase [59]. The adenylate cyclase from B. pertussis can be split into two functionally complementary fragments, T18 and T25, allowing protein dimerization to be assayed based on dimerization of T18 and T25 and reconstitution of... 

Fig. 3.1. A highly schematic representation of the molecular imprinting process. A monomer mixture with ehemical functionality complementary to that of the template is allowed to form solution adducts through the complementary interacting functionalities (reversible covalent or non-covalent interactions). Polymerisation in the presence of a cross-linking agent, followed by removal of the template, leads to the defining of recognition sites of complementary steric and functional topography to the template molecule.

Fig. 3.9 Graphical representation of the error function in the approximated form after Kinzelhach (1986). This is the function complementary to the error function of Boudreau (1997). Additionally, in the form published by Boudreau (1997), the range of negative values for (a) is omitted, as this has little relevance for sediments.

When a polymer is prepared in the presence of "print molecules" as the transition state or intermediate analogues, which are extracted after polymerization, the remaining polymer may contain catalytic cavities capable of recognizing the print molecules. By analogy to the catalytic antibodies, where a function complementary to that of the hapten can be induced in a specific place, polymers can be imprinted with print molecules containing suitable catalytic functionalities. Because dendrimers are stmcturally regulated polymers with an inner core like an enzyme active site, their characteristics as enzyme mimics also attract attention. 

Figure 6.16 (a) Analysis of a DNA by a FRET process to a dye-functionalized complementary nucleic acid (b) Analysis of DNA through a FRET process to ethidium bromide intercalated... 

Nair KP, Breedveld V, Week M (2011) Modulating mechanical properties of self-assembled polymer networks by multi-functional complementary hydrogen bonding. Soft Matter 7... 

Polymerization of monomers pre-organized by association with macromolecules is known as matrix or template polymerization. The specific, associative interactions between monomers, the growing chain (daughter) and template (parent) enable this mode of polymerization to occur and may control the structure of the daughter polymer [1,2]. The template is usually a linear polymer and it carries functionality complementary in charge, dipole, or chemical property to that of the daughter. For example, polymerization of 1 may be accomplished via association with polyanions such as poly(4-styrene sulfonate) (Eq. 6.2.6)... 

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