Intramolecular recognition

Two potential applications of DCLs that remain underexplored are catalysis (Chapter 4) and the exploration of intramolecular recognition to give rise to molecules exhibiting stably folded structures. In both of these areas the field has not developed as rapidly and is stiU in the proof-of-principle phase. 

Gloaguen E, Pagliarulo F, Breimer V, Chin W, Piuzzi F, Tardivel B, Mons M (2007) Intramolecular recognition in a jet-cooled short peptide chain gamma-tum helicity probed by a neighbouring residue. Phys Chem Chem Phys 9(32) 4491 1497... 

Most effective differentiation of the receptor between substrates will occur when multiple interactions are involved in the recognition process. The more binding regions (contact area) present, the stronger and more selective will be the recognition (17). This is the case for receptor molecules that contain intramolecular cavities, clefts or pockets into which the substrate may fit (Fig. 1). 

The relevance of lipophilicity in pharmacodynamics is due to the fact that inter-and intramolecular interactions governing lipophiUcity (Sections 12.1.1.2 and 12.1.1.3) are of the same nature as those that govern drug recognition and binding to biological sites of action [3, 4, 15]. 

The aromatic spacer group of the model receptors prevent the formation of intramolecular hydrogen bonds between the opposing carboxyls yet these functions are ideally positioned for intermolecular hydrogen bonds of the sort indicated in 32. The acridine derivatives do indeed form stoichiometric complexes with oxalic, malonic (and C-substituted malonic acids) as well as maleic and phthalic acids, Fumaric, succinic or glutaric acids did not form such complexes. Though protonation appears to be a necessary element in the recognition of these diacids, the receptor has more to... 

Effective charge and transition-state structure in solution, 27, 1 Effective molarities of intramolecular reactions, 17,183 Electrical conduction in organic solids, 16,159 Electrochemical methods, study of reactive intermediates by, 19, 131 Electrochemical recognition of charged and neutral guest species by redox-active receptor molecules, 31, 1... 

Interface, the air-water, chirality and molecular recognition in monolayers at, 28, 45 Intermediates, reactive, study of, by electrochemical methods, 19, 131 Intermediates, tetrahedral, derived from carboxylic acids, spectroscopic detection and investigation of their properties, 21, 37 Intramolecular reactions, effective molarities for, 17, 183 Intramolecular reactions, of chain molecules, 22, 1... 

K. Hamasaki, H. Ikeda, A. Nakamura, A. Ueno, F. Toda, I. Suzuki, andT. Osa, Fluorescence sensors of molecular recognition. Modified cyclodextrins capable of exhibiting guest-responsive twisted intramolecular charge transfer fluorescence, /. Am. Chem. Soc. 775,5035-5040(1993). 

In biological systems, electron transfer kinetics are determined by many factors of different physical origin. This is especially true in the case of a bimolecular reaction, since the rate expression then involves the formation constant Kf of the transient bimolecular complex as well as the rate of the intracomplex transfer [4]. The elucidation of the factors that influence the value of Kf in redox reactions between two proteins, or between a protein and organic or inorganic complexes, has been the subject of many experimental studies, and some of them are presented in this volume. The complexation step is essential in ensuring specific recognition between physiological partners. However, it is not considered in the present chapter, which deals with the intramolecular or intracomplex steps which are the direct concern of electron transfer theories. 

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