pH-dependent reversible polymers formed from cyclic sugar- and aromatic boronic acid-based bolaamphiphiles

Glucuronamide-based bolaamphiphiles are found to form a reversible, linear polymolecular array, via a boronate ester linkage attached to the 1,2-positions of the pyranose or furanose ring, upon complexation with an aromatic boronic acid-based homologue in aqueous solutions.