Interfacial Molecular Recognition by Boronic Acid-Appended Amphiphiles

3 Interfacial Molecular Recognition by Boronic Acid-Appended Amphiphiles 

The air-water interface has interesting features as a medium for molecular recognition. For example, (1) a molecularly flat environment is formed at the interface, (2) a boundary region is facing the two phases with different dielectric constants, (3) macroscopically dynamic changes can be taken place 

Ludwig et al demonstrated that cholesterol-substituted phenylboronic acid 1 can be utilized for ehiral discrimination of monosaccharide at the 

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