Alejandro Lamas, Arcadio Guerra, Manuel Amorín and Juan R. Granja
Chem. Sci., 2018,9, 8228-8233
DOI:
10.1039/C8SC02276C,
Edge Article
Here we show that 4-aminocyclohexanecarboxylic acid is a rigid stretcher building block for the preparation of cyclic peptides that self-assemble to form peptide nanotubes with large diameter and hydrophobic pores. The hydrophobic properties of the resulting nanotubes provided by the two methylene groups per δ-residue allow the encapsulation of C60 moieties forming a new type of bionanopeapod structure.