Teamed boronate affinity

Scheme 11.4 Schematic of teamed boronate affinity and the self-assembly on a gold surface.

Although the first report on boronic acids was published in 1862, boronate affinity materials have not been extensively investigated until recently. In recent years, various boronate-functionalized materials, " such as macroporous monoliths, " " nanoparticles, and mesoporous materials, have been developed into important tools for the facile selective extraction of cis-diol-containing compounds. With these matrices, several important materials with teamed boronate affinity and boronate avidity as well as boronate affinity-based molecularly imprinted polymers have been prepared. 

Scheme 11.16 Schematic of teamed boronate affinity and self-assembly on a gold surface. (Reproduced from ref. 21 with permission. Copyright 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry.)...

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