Bio-inspired self-assembled molecular capsules

Abstract

Bowl shaped molecules are useful for making molecular capsules with suitable non-covalent bonds. Bowl shaped cyclotriguaiacylene can be suitably modified at its phenolic groups for attaching suitable functionality to construct molecular capsules. In this work, a molecular capsule has been prepared by appending adenine and thymine to cyclotriguaiacylene. These blocks when mixed in a mixture of solvents give a molecular capsule as ascertained by mass and NMR spectroscopy.