Water-soluble J-type rosette nanotubes with giant molar ellipticity

G Borzsonyi, RL Beingessner, T Yamazaki…

Index: Borzsonyi, Gabor; Beingessner, Rachel L.; Yamazaki, Takeshi; Cho, Jae-Young; Myles, Andrew J.; Malac, Marek; Egerton, Ray; Kawasaki, Masahiro; Ishizuka, Kazuo; Kovalenko, Andriy; Fenniri, Hicham Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010 , vol. 132, # 43 p. 15136 - 15139

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Abstract

A new self-assembling tricyclic module (× K1) featuring the Watson− Crick H-bonding arrays of guanine and cytosine fused to an internal pyridine ring was synthesized. When dissolved in water at room temperature, this module rapidly self-assembles into hexameric rosettes, which then stack to form J-type rosette nanotubes (RNTs) with increased inner/outer diameters and the largest molar ellipticity ever reported (4× 106 deg· M− 1· m− 1). Using a ...