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PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY
Volume 80, Issue 3, Pages 571-587Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1351/pac200880030571
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fullerenes; calixarenes; micelles; amphiphiles; liposomes
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The supramolecular aggregation properties of new prototypes of artificial amphiphiles consisting of fullerene or calixarene building blocks serving as platforms for the connection of hydrophobic and dendritic hydrophilic groups are reported. Very water-soluble monoadducts of C-60 carrying a defined number of negative charges at a given pH were hybridized with cationic porphyrins including cyctochrome C and investigated with respect to photoinduced electron transfer. Fullerene adducts with dendritic deprotected sugar addends self-assemble to supramolecular sugar balls in water with a narrow size distribution of the micelles of around 4 nm. Various examples of cone- or T-shaped amphiphiles involving calixarene and fullerene cores self-organize to the first examples of shape-persistent micelles whose supramolecular arrangement in water has been determined with unprecedented precision based on the analysis of cryo-transmission electron microscopy (TEM) investigations.
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