Patchy supramolecules as versatile tools to probe hydrophobicity in nanoglobular systems

LM Negrón, Y Meléndez-Contés…

Index: Negron, Luis M.; Melendez-Contes, Yazmary; Rivera, Jose M. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2013 , vol. 135, # 10 p. 3815 - 3817

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Abstract

We describe precise supramolecules that enable the evaluation of the effective hydrophobicity of amphiphilic or “patchy” nanoglobular systems. These supramolecules exhibit the lower critical solution temperature phenomenon, which provides a quantitative measure of their effective hydrophobicity. Specifically, two isomeric 8-aryl-2′- deoxyguanosine derivatives with a transposed pair of methylene groups self-assemble ...