A linear-hyperbranched supramolecular amphiphile and its self-assembly into vesicles with great ductility

Wei Tao; Yong Liu; Binbin Jiang; Songrui Yu; Wei Huang; Yongfeng Zhou; Deyue Yan

doi:10.1021/ja207924w

A linear-hyperbranched supramolecular amphiphile and its self-assembly into vesicles with great ductility

J Am Chem Soc. 2012 Jan 18;134(2):762-4. doi: 10.1021/ja207924w. Epub 2011 Dec 29.

Authors

Wei Tao¹, Yong Liu, Binbin Jiang, Songrui Yu, Wei Huang, Yongfeng Zhou, Deyue Yan

Affiliation

¹ School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, PR China.

PMID: 22239603
DOI: 10.1021/ja207924w

Abstract

A linear-hyperbranched supramolecular amphiphile was synthesized through the noncovalent coupling of adamantane-functionalized long alkyl chain (AD-C(n), n = 12, 18, 30) and hyperbranched polyglycerol grafted from β-cyclodextrin (CD-g-HPG) by the specific AD/CD host-guest interactions. The obtained supramolecular C(n)-b-HPGs self-assembled into unilamellar vesicles with great ductility that could be disassembled readily under a competitive host of β-CD.