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Efficient Construction of Oligocholate Foldamers via “Click” Chemistry and Their Tolerance of Structural Heterogeneity
Organic Letters
  • Xingang Pan, Iowa State University
  • Yan Zhao, Iowa State University
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
1-1-2009
DOI
10.1021/ol802364c
Abstract

The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition between an alkynyl-terminated cholate trimer and an azido-functionalized cholate hexamer readily afforded the nonamer and dodecamer derivatives, whereas amide coupling employed in previous oligocholate synthesis failed beyond the octamer. Unlike typical oligocholate foldamers with exclusively head-to-tail arrangement of the repeat units, the newly synthesized “clicked” oligocholates contained head-to-head arrangement and flexible tethers in the sequence. Despite large structural perturbations, the clicked oligocholates folded similarly as the parent foldamers, demonstrating the robustness of the solvophobically driven folding mechanism.

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Reprinted (adapted) with permission from Organic Letters 11 (2009): 69, doi:10.1021/ol802364c. Copyright 2009 American Chemical Society.

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American Chemical Society
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en
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Citation Information
Xingang Pan and Yan Zhao. "Efficient Construction of Oligocholate Foldamers via “Click” Chemistry and Their Tolerance of Structural Heterogeneity" Organic Letters Vol. 11 Iss. 1 (2009) p. 69 - 72
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/yan_zhao/4/