Nanohoops in membranes: confined supramolecular spaces within phospholipid bilayer membranes.

ABSTRACT: Nanohoops, an exciting class of fluorophores with supramolecular binding abilities, have the potential to become innovative tools within biological imaging and sensing. Given the biological importance of cell membranes, incorporation of macrocyclic materials with the dual capability of fluorescence emission and supramolecular complexation would be particularly interesting. A series of different-sized nanohoops-ethylene glycol-decorated [n]cyclo-para-pyrenylenes (CPYs) (n = 4-8)-were synthesised via an alternate synthetic route which implements a stannylation-based precursor, producing purer material than the previous borylation approach, enabling the growth of single-crystals of the Pt-macrocycle. Reductive elimination of these single-crystals achieved significa

SUBMITTER: Chinner K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11409858 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature