Issue 90, 2013
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Chemical Communications

Aromatic peptide amphiphiles: significance of the Fmoc moiety†

Scott Fleming,*a   Sisir Debnath,a   Pim W. J. M. Frederix,ab   Tell Tuttlea  and  Rein V. Ulijn*a  

* Corresponding authors

a WestCHEM, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XL, UK
E-mail: scott.fleming@strath.ac.uk, rein.ulijn@strath.ac.uk

b Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, SUPA, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK

Abstract

Aromatic peptide amphiphile hydrogelators commonly utilise the fluorenyl-9-methoxycarbonyl moiety as an N-terminal capping group. Material properties and spectroscopic techniques show the influence of alternative linkers between the fluorenyl moiety and the peptide. This study establishes whether methoxycarbonyl is an optimal or mainly convenient linker, for this class of self-assembling systems.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC45822A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
30 Jul 2013
Accepted
25 Sep 2013
First published
30 Sep 2013
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 10587-10589

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Aromatic peptide amphiphiles: significance of the Fmoc moiety

S. Fleming, S. Debnath, P. W. J. M. Frederix, T. Tuttle and R. V. Ulijn, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 10587 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45822A

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