New water-soluble calixarenes modified with amino acids at the upper rim

Autor: Yusuke Tajiri, Seiji Shinkai, Takeshi Nagasaki
Rok vydání: 1993
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Zdroj: Recueil des Travaux Chimiques des Pays-Bas. 112:407-411
ISSN: 0165-0513
DOI: 10.1002/recl.19931120617
Popis: Calix[n]arenes (n = 4 and 6) modified with L-cysteines were synthesized. These calix[n]arenes were water-soluble, particularly, at acidic and basic pH regions. The critical micelle concentrations (estimated by surface tension) appeared at (0.50-3.2) · 10−5 M. The “hydrophobicity” of these cavities was estimated by fluorescence of 8-anilino-1-naphthalene-sulfonate (ANS): it showed that these calix[n]arenes become most hydrophobic at pH 5-6. The selectivity in guest inclusion was significantly affected by the medium pH.
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