Synthesis and Mesoscopic Order of a Sugar-Coated Poly(p-phenyleneethynylene)

Temperature-Dependent In-Plane Structure Formation of an X-Shaped Bolapolyphile within Lipid Bilayers

“…12 The properties of other oligo(phenylene ethynylenes) with at least two hydrophilic groups have been reported by various groups, however mostly with lateral hydrophilic groups and without addressing their properties in lipid bilayer membranes. [13][14][15][16][17] The aromatic backbone length of the newly designed molecules is 3.2 nm and is thus in the range of the typical thickness of the lipophilic part of a phospholipid bilayer. [18][19] The total length between the ends of the glycerol units is, depending on the assumed conformation, in the range from 4.0 to 4.4 nm (see Fig 1).…”

Synthesis and Antibacterial Activities of Sugar-containing Platinum Ethynyl Complexes

“…As a consequence, these materials possess interesting properties such as optical nonlinearity, luminescence, liquid crystallinity (Long et al 2003). Compared to the application of conjugated organic PPEs in biology (Kim et al 2007, Dam et al 2002, Phillips 2008, Babudri et al 2003, Erdogan et al 2002, little attention is given to their organometallic analogues (Wong et al 2004, Ma et al 2005. However, metal coordination complexes with tunable properties, such as radioactivity, cytotoxicity or photophysical features, would be good candidates for biomedical application, e.g.…”

Triphenylamine-based fluorescent conjugated glycopolymers: Synthesis, characterization and interactions with lectins

“…As multivalent model systems and artificial glycoconjugates, synthetic glycopolymers have demonstrated to be important well-defined tools for investigating carbohydrate-based biological events [6][7][8]. In particular, fluorescent conjugated glycopolymers that possess both fluorescent scaffolding and reporting carbohydrate ligands are attractively used in carbohydrate-protein interaction studies and biosensor applications because of their intrinsic optical properties, high sensitivities to minor stimuli, and good biocompatibilities [9][10][11][12][13]. A few conjugated polymers, such as polythiophene [10,11], polyfluorene [12], poly(p-phenylene-ethynylene) [13][14][15][16][17], poly(phenylene-vinylene) [18], and poly(p-phenylene) [19], have been chosen to design this type of multivalent glycoconjugates.…”

“…In particular, fluorescent conjugated glycopolymers that possess both fluorescent scaffolding and reporting carbohydrate ligands are attractively used in carbohydrate-protein interaction studies and biosensor applications because of their intrinsic optical properties, high sensitivities to minor stimuli, and good biocompatibilities [9][10][11][12][13]. A few conjugated polymers, such as polythiophene [10,11], polyfluorene [12], poly(p-phenylene-ethynylene) [13][14][15][16][17], poly(phenylene-vinylene) [18], and poly(p-phenylene) [19], have been chosen to design this type of multivalent glycoconjugates. One approach to such a system is represented by the polymerization or copolymerization of well-defined carbohydrate-carrying monomers through classical C-C coupling reactions [10,13,[15][16][17][18].…”

“…A few conjugated polymers, such as polythiophene [10,11], polyfluorene [12], poly(p-phenylene-ethynylene) [13][14][15][16][17], poly(phenylene-vinylene) [18], and poly(p-phenylene) [19], have been chosen to design this type of multivalent glycoconjugates. One approach to such a system is represented by the polymerization or copolymerization of well-defined carbohydrate-carrying monomers through classical C-C coupling reactions [10,13,[15][16][17][18]. Another synthetic approach is the so-called postpolymerization functionalization, in which sugar moieties are grafted to the backbones after the formation of conjugated polymers [11,12,14,19].…”