We have fabricated supra-amphiphiles by charge-transfer complexation of azulene-based amphiphiles and pyrene in water, and the self-assembled nanostructures can reversibly change between cylindrical micelles and disklike nanosheets in response to interaction with guest molecules.

BACKGROUND Serum and high ionic strength solutions constitute important barriers to cationic lipid-mediated intravenous gene transfer. Preparation or incubation of lipoplexes in these media results in alteration of their biophysical properties, generally leading to a decrease in transfection efficiency. Accurate quantification of these changes is of paramount importance for the success of lipop...

Simulating adsorption of U(VI) under transient groundwater flow and hydrochemistry: Physical versus chemical nonequilibrium model" (2011). [1] Coupled intragrain diffusional mass transfer and nonlinear surface complexation processes play an important role in the transport behavior of U(VI) in contaminated aquifers. Two alternative model approaches for simulating these coupled processes were ana...

The phase transfer catalysed nucleophilic displacement of 1,3-bis(bromomethyl)benzene, 2-methoxy-5methyl-1,3-bis(bromomethyl)benzene (2) and 1,4-bis(bromomethyl)benzene with 2-mercaptoethanol gives the respective diols 3, 4 and 12 (80–85%), which undergo intermolecular cyclodehydrochlorination with thiodiglycolyl dichloride and pyridine-2,6-dicarbonyl dichloride?HCl to provide m-phenylene (7–10...

The synthesis, complexation properties and catalytic activities under phase-transfer (PT) conditions of differently substituted cyclohexapeptoids are reported. Association constants, for small cationic alkali, and catalytic performances, in a model nucleophilic substitution, are comparable to those of representative crown ethers. Noteworthy, the N-[2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethyl] side chain derivativ...

the charge-transfer complexation reaction between iodine and dibenzo- 18-crown- 6 (db18c6) has been studied spectrophotometrically in chloroform solution at different temperatures. the resulting donor-acceptor complex was formulated as (db 18c6…i )i . the spectrophotometric results , as well as the conductivity measurements, indicated that the gradual release of tiiodide ion from its contact io...

The triple-proton-transfer reactions of 8H-1,8-naphthyridin-2-one (8H-naph) have been investigated by employing different ab initio quantum mechanical methods. The proton transfer reactions studied were facilitated through complexation of 8H-naph with a 1,3-propanediol molecule or two adjacent water molecules. Identical proton transfer reactions were studied using a model system of 8Hnaph to in...

Magnetic field effects on photo induced electron transfer reaction have been of much interest in a view of designing an effective light energy conversion system. Supramolecular system is known as a convenient tool to construct effective donor-acceptor structures for the reaction. In this review, we briefly describe our studies of supramolecular type complexation of porphyrin-viologen linked com...