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Molecular recognition through hydrogen bonding of (a) adenine in a cleft, and (b) barbituric acid in a macrocyclic receptor (right). 

Aspects of supramolecular hierarchy in increasing superstructure complexity. 

Molecular recognition studies are typically carried out in solution, and the effects of intermolecular interactions are often probed by spectroscopic methods. 

1 Binding forces and interactions invoived in moiecuiar recognition 

The presence of chirality in host and guest will likewise affect the interaction between them. Chirality can perhaps be seen as a second order source of stored structural information that is available for exploitation, often with dramatic effect, for achieving an additional type of host-guest recognition based on handedness . 

Lindoy, The Chemistry of Macrocyclic Ligand Complexes, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. 

Besides the above, the overall stability of a supramolecular complex will clearly also depend upon both the number and the nature of the available binding sites in each component. As discussed in Chapter 2, solvation effects may often also play an important role in determining the strength of host-guest binding. 

Photoresponsive host-guest systems based on azobenzene-substituted crown ethers have been shown to be particularly effective in the control of molecular recognition by light, due to their large geometrical changes upon E-Z isomerization. 55 A num- 

The E-Z isomerization of an azobenzene unit was employed in an approach towards photocontrol of the chiral recognition event in a membrane.1581 To this end, (4-(phenyl-azo)phenyl carbamate residues were attached to carbamate-protected glucose units of cellulose and amylose. The photomodulation of the chiral recognition was explained by a change in the ordering of the polymer, leading to a change in solubility. 

The inclusion complexation of spiropyrans in cyclodextrins has also been explored as a means to control photochromic reactions.1591 Distinct differences in complexation of sulfonic acid-modified spiropyrans to various cyclodextrins were observed and the closed spiropyran form bound to (3-cyclodextrin was stable towards photochemical ring-opening. 

The expression fits like a glove is an odd one, because there are many different types of gloves and only a few of them are going to fit the situation you are in. 

A Series of Unfortunate Events The Grim Grotto Book the Eleventh 

Molecular recognition Ues at the very heart of sensor chemistry. The process itself involves the interaction between two substances, often termed as a host and a guest, a lock and a key or a receptor and a substrate. Importantly, recognition is not just defined as a binding event but requires selectivity 

Nevertheless, for the recognition event at a receptor to be of practical use, a further element is required. A channel of communication must be established between the receptor and the outside world. This additional quality converts a receptor into a sensor. 

Synthetic sensors incorporate a synthetically prepared element for recognition. While biomimetic reeeptors have been prepared, with synthetic receptors mimicking the active sites in naturally occurring biological molecules, synthetic receptors can, and often are, designed entirely from first principles. 

Another interesting approach for the elaboration of ionosilica stationary phases consists in the formation of poly(ionic liquid) (PIL)-grafted silica phases. Poly(l-allylimidazole)-grafted silica appeared as a versatile stationary phase for 

The applications talce benefit of the mixed ionic mineral nature of silica iono-gel and ionosilica materials and are particularly used in electrochemical devices, catalysis, separation, and molecular recognition. However, the investigations in these fields are at their very beginning and further studies are necessary in order to obtain detailed knowledge of physicochemical and chemical properties of this original femily of materials, situated at the interfece of salt and silica. 

Le Bideau, J Viau, L and Vioux, A. (2011) lonogels, ionic liquid based hybrid materials. Chem. Soc. Rev., 40, 907-925. Ueno, K., Tokuda, H., and Watanabe, M. (2010) lonicity in ionic liquids correlation with ionic structure and physicochemical properties. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 12, 1649-1658. 

Krossing, I., Slattery, J.M., Daguenet, C., Dyson, P.J., Oleinikova, A., and Weingaertner, H. (2006) Why are ionic liquids liquid A simple explanation based on lattice and solvation energies. /. Am. Chem. Soc., 128,13427-13434. 

Aslanov, L.A. (2012) Structures of ionic liquids in melts. Russ. J. Inorg. Chem., 

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A large number of studies concerned witli tliiol-tenninated molecules has been directed at tire preparation of tailored organic surfaces, since tlieir importance has been steadily increasing in various applications. Films of o> functionalized alkanetliiols have facilitated fundamental studies of interfacial phenomena, such as adhesion [190, 191], corrosion protection [192], electrochemistry [193], wetting [194], protein adsorjDtion [195, 196] or molecular recognition [197, 198, 199, 200 and 201] to mention only a few. 

Lancet D, Sadovsky E and Seidemann E 1993 Probability model for molecular recognition in biological receptor repertoires significance to the olfactory system Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 90 3715-19... 

O. A. Raevsky, L. Dolmatova, V. Y. Grigor ev, S. Bondarev, Molecular recognition descriptors in QSAR, in QSAR and Mdecular Modelling Concepts, Cotnpu-... 

Fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic and its application to molecular recognition are explained in Chapter IX, Section 1.5 in the Handbook. 

I-J and G Klebe 1996. What Can We Learn From Molecular Recognition in Protein-Ligand nplexes for the Design of New Drugs Angewandte Chemie Iniemational Edition in English 2588-2614. 

GeUiaar D K, G M Verkhivker, P A Rejto, C J Sherman, D B Fogel, L J Fogel and S T Freer 1995 Molecular Recognition of the Inhibitor AG-1343 by HFV-l Protease Conformationally FlexibL Docking by Evolutionary Programming. Chemistry and Biology 2 317-324. 

Jones G, P Willett and R C Glen 1995b. Molecular Recognition of Receptor Sites Using a Geneti Algorithm with a Description of Desolvation. Journal of Molecular Biology 245 43-53. 

The reaction of iodobenzene with acrylate is a good synthetic method for the cinnamate 17[7]. In the competitive reaction of acrylate with a mixture of 0-and /i-iodoanisoles (18 and 19), the o-methoxycinnamate 20 was obtained selectively owing to the molecular recognition by interlamellar montmorillonite ethylsilyldiphenylphosphine (L) as a heterogenized homogeneous catalyst used as a ligand[28]. 

According to these basic concepts, molecular recognition implies complementary lock-and-key type fit between molecules. The lock is the molecular receptor and the key is the substrate that is recognised and selected to give a defined receptor—substrate complex, a coordination compound or a supermolecule. Hence molecular recognition is one of the three main pillars, fixation, coordination, and recognition, that lay foundation of what is now called supramolecular chemistry (8—11). 

Information may be stored in the architecture of the receptor, in its binding sites, and in the ligand layer surrounding the bound substrate such as specified in Table 1. It is read out at the rate of formation and dissociation of the receptor—substrate complex (14). The success of this approach to molecular recognition ties in estabUshing a precise complementarity between the associating partners, ie, optimal information content of a receptor with respect to a given substrate. 

The weak intemiolecular forces that are principally involved in stabilizing receptor-substrate interactions and involved in molecular recognition processes (16) are summarized in Table 2. Examples are shown in Figure 1. 

Fig. 3. Schematic approach illustrating amplifica tion of molecular recognition effects of (a) matched rigid, (b) mismatched rigid, and (c) flexible type of...

Topology. This parameter may have reference to either the receptor as an individual molecular stmcture or to the receptor—substrate complex on a higher level of organization that is direcdy related to the mode and efficiency of molecular recognition (14,30). 

Substrates involved in molecular recognition may feature a particular shape, size, state of charge, chemical affinity or optical specification (19,30,33—36). In general most of these parameters share. Nevertheless there may be dominating features of a certain substrate molecule to be used by a complementary receptor in the recognition process (9). 

In a word, all these receptors are more or less able to discriminate against cations that are either smaller or larger than thek cavity (44). However, in a strict sense, discrimination of metal-ion spheres does not concern with molecular recognition but selection of the carbon ball C q certainly does. In fact, the fuUerene C q has been included into the cavity of octa-/ f2 butylcalix[8]arene (Fig. 8c) shutting out C q and making a very convenient and efficient C q purification possible without any expensive apparatus (45). 

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