Gel Sculpture: Moldable, Load??Bearing and Self??Healing Non??Polymeric Supramolecular Gel Derived from a Simple Organic Salt

…, R Sankolli, HY Lee, SR Raghavan…

Index: Sahoo, Pathik; Sankolli, Ravish; Lee, Hee-Young; Raghavan, Srinivasa R.; Dastidar, Parthasarathi Chemistry - A European Journal, 2012 , vol. 18, # 26 p. 8057 - 8063

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Abstract

Abstract An easy access to a library of simple organic salts derived from tert-butoxycarbonyl (Boc)-protected L-amino acids and two secondary amines (dicyclohexyl-and dibenzyl amine) are synthesized following a supramolecular synthon rationale to generate a new series of low molecular weight gelators (LMWGs). Out of the 12 salts that we prepared, the nitrobenzene gel of dicyclohexylammonium Boc-glycinate (GLY. 1) displayed remarkable ...