Recent development in the design of artificial enzymes through molecular imprinting technology

R Tian, Y Li, J Xu, C Hou, Q Luo, J Liu - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Enzymes, a class of proteins or RNA with high catalytic efficiency and specificity, have
inspired generations of scientists to develop enzyme mimics with similar capabilities. Many …

Molecular imprinting with functional DNA

Z Zhang, J Liu - Small, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular imprinting refers to templated polymerization with rationally designed monomers,
and this is a general method to prepare stable and cost‐effective ligands. This attractive …

The assembly of porphyrin systems in well-defined nanostructures: An update

G Magna, D Monti, C Di Natale, R Paolesse… - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
The interest in assembling porphyrin derivatives is widespread and is accounted by the
impressive impact of these suprastructures of controlled size and shapes in many …

Controlling J-Aggregates formation and chirality induction through demetallation of a zinc (II) water soluble porphyrin

IG Occhiuto, MA Castriciano, M Trapani… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Under acidic conditions and at high ionic strength, the zinc cation is removed from its metal
complex with 5, 10, 15, 20-tetrakis (4-sulfonatophenyl) porphyrin (TPPS4) thus leading to the …

Nanotrumpets and circularly polarized luminescent nanotwists hierarchically self-assembled from an achiral C 3-symmetric ester

Y Sang, P Duan, M Liu - Chemical Communications, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
An achiral C3-symmetric molecule was found to self-assemble into various hierarchical
nanostructures such as nanotwists, nanotrumpets and nanobelts, in which the twisted fibers …

Biological evaluation, molecular docking and DNA interaction studies of coordination compounds gleaned from a pyrazolone incorporated ligand

A Arunadevi, J Porkodi, L Ramgeetha… - … and Nucleic Acids, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In this work, we have synthesized a few novel mononuclear complexes of Cu (II), Co (II), Ni
(II) and Zn (II) using a pyrazolone-derived Schiff base ligand. They were characterized by …

Long‐Range Chiral Induction by a Fully Noncovalent Approach in Supramolecular Porphyrin–Calixarene Assemblies

M Gaeta, G Sortino, R Randazzo… - … A European Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The hierarchical assembly, in aqueous solution, of a new multi‐metalloporphyrin/calixarene
aggregate has been accomplished. In this supramolecular system transfer of chirality, from …

Lewis basicity of relevant monoanions in a non-protogenic organic solvent using a zinc (II) Schiff-base complex as a reference Lewis acid

IP Oliveri - Dalton Transactions, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Anions are ubiquitous species playing a primary role in chemistry, whose reactivity is
essentially dominated by their Lewis basicity. However, no Lewis basicity data, in terms of …

The role of counter-anions in the kinetics and chirality of porphyrin J-aggregates

IG Occhiuto, R Zagami, M Trapani… - Chemical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Kinetics of the growth of TPPS4 porphyrin J-aggregates slow down in the order H2SO4>
HCl> HBr> HNO3> HClO4, in agreement with the Hofmeister series. The rate constants and …

Different conjugated system Zn (II) Schiff base complexes: supramolecular structure, luminescent properties, and applications in the PMMA-doped hybrid materials

YW Dong, RQ Fan, W Chen, HJ Zhang, Y Song… - Dalton …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
A series of Zn (II) complexes with different conjugated systems,[ZnL1Cl2] 2
(Zn1),[ZnL2Cl2](Zn2),[Zn (L3) 2]·(ClO4) 2 (Zn3),[Zn2L4Cl4](Zn4), and [ZnL5Cl2](Zn5), were …