Antonio Frontera and Antonio Bauzá
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2021,19, 7816-7821
DOI:
10.1039/D1OB01209F,
Communication
Through the combination of X-ray structure analysis and density functional theory (DFT) theoretical calculations at the B3LYP-D3/def2-TZVP level of theory, we designed and investigated two novel host units for the recognition of neutral (e.g. halobenzenes) and charged (e.g. chloride and nitrate) guests inspired by a glutamate carboxypeptidase II (GCPII) system and its inhibitors.