Issue 74, 2014
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Chemical Communications

Supramolecular pyridyl urea gels as soft matter with antibacterial properties against MRSA and/or E. coli†

Komala Pandurangan,a   Jonathan A. Kitchen,ab   Salvador Blasco,a   Francesca Paradisic  and  Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson*a  

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a School of Chemistry and Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
E-mail: gunnlaut@tcd.ie
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b Chemistry, Faculty of Natural & Environmental Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK

c School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland

Abstract

The synthesis and characterisation of novel aryl-pyridyl ureas are described, which form self-assembly structures via extended hydrogen bonding and π–π interactions in the solid state, and in selected cases, form supramolecular gels with antimicrobial properties against Staphylococcus aureus and/or Escherichia coli.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC04028G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
26 May 2014
Accepted
25 Jul 2014
First published
25 Jul 2014

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 10819-10822

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Supramolecular pyridyl urea gels as soft matter with antibacterial properties against MRSA and/or E. coli

K. Pandurangan, J. A. Kitchen, S. Blasco, F. Paradisi and T. Gunnlaugsson, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 10819 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC04028G

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