Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Martin Dracinsky, Carina Santos Hurtado, Eric Masson, Jiri Kaleta
Summary: Solvent-free mechanochemical synthesis was used to prepare inclusion complexes with cucurbit[7]uril and four model guest molecules. Confirmation of successful formation of individual inclusions was independently confirmed by solid-state NMR techniques and differential scanning calorimetry. Mechanochemical synthesis is an alternative route towards new types of cucurbit[n]uril-guest inclusion complexes.
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Khaleel Assaf
Summary: The supramolecular complexation of doxepin with cucurbit[7]uril was investigated in aqueous solution, and a host-guest complex was formed. The partial encapsulation of doxepin led to the development of a supramolecular assembly at low concentration.
ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Valya Nikolova, Anita Velinova, Stefan Dobrev, Nikoleta Kircheva, Silvia Angelova, Todor Dudev
Summary: The interactions between neutral/protonated mitoxantrone and cucurbit[n]uril (n = 7, 8) host systems were analyzed using density functional theory calculations. It was found that stable inclusion complexes can form between doubly and quadruply charged mitoxantrone molecules and CB[7] or CB[8] in a water solvent. Both CB[7] and CB[8] show properties that are useful for drug delivery.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
(2021)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Valya Nikolova, Stefan Dobrev, Nikoleta Kircheva, Victoria Yordanova, Todor Dudev, Silvia Angelova
Summary: Cucurbiturils are beneficial excipients in eye drop formulations due to their ability to improve drug solubility, absorption, stability, and reduce irritation. Understanding the interactions between the host-guest molecules (CBs and antimuscarinic drugs) can enhance current treatments and develop new therapies for eye conditions. This study focuses on factors such as guest position, drug ionization, medium dielectric constant, and pore size, providing atomic-level insights into the recognition mechanism between CBs and the drugs.
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR GRAPHICS & MODELLING
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Medicinal
Zhaoxi Sun, Zhe Huai, Qiaole He, Zhirong Liu
Summary: Describing, understanding, and designing complex interaction networks within macromolecular systems remain challenging in modern chemical research. Host-guest systems, despite their relative simplicity in both the structural feature and interaction patterns, still pose problems in theoretical modeling. The barrel-shaped supramolecular container cucurbit[8]uril (CB8) shows promising functionalities in various areas.
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Tianyue Xu, Fengbo Liu, Xianchen Hu, Zhiyong Zhao, Simin Liu
Summary: In this study, the cyan phosphorescence of water-soluble halogen-substituted phthalic anhydride derivatives in aqueous solution was enhanced by supramolecular host-guest complexation with cucurbit[n]urils. This successful attempt suggests a feasible strategy for creating visible room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) materials in aqueous solution through CB[n]-based host-guest complexation.
NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Suresh Moorthy, Alvaro Castillo Bonillo, Hugues Lambert, Elina Kalenius, Tung-Chun Lee
Summary: A new supramolecular approach has been reported to selectively deactivate the electrophilic alpha-carbon of phenyl diazonium ion through host-guest complexation, thus avoiding undesirable side reactions. This method holds great potential for the reactive chemistry of organic molecules in aqueous media.
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Xin Huang, Hang Zhou, Rong Jiao, Hanrui Liu, Changfu Qin, Lixin Xu, Yueyue Chen
Summary: Supramolecular chemotherapy is an effective strategy to improve the therapeutic efficacy of traditional chemotherapy. The study showed that a supramolecular platform based on cucurbit[7]uril and heptaplatin had higher antitumor activity against colorectal tumors with lower cytotoxicity to normal cells. These findings are expected to advance supramolecular chemotherapy in clinical development.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Hugues Lambert, Alvaro Castillo Bonillo, Qiang Zhu, Yong-Wei Zhang, Tung-Chun Lee
Summary: This study computationally explores the modulation of the release kinetics of a guest molecule from the CB7 cavity by ligands binding to the host portal. A correlation between ligand-binding affinity with CB7 and guest residence time is uncovered, allowing for rapid prediction of release kinetics. The study also designs cap-shaped ligand molecules with large binding affinities to significantly boost guest residence times. Notably, halogenated aromatic compounds emerge as top-ranking ligands, and their binding to CB7 is supported by experimental evidence.
NPJ COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Carlos Redondo-Gomez, Soraya Padilla-Lopategui, Alvaro Mata, Helena S. Azevedo
Summary: The host-guest-mediated PA hydrogelation method relies on the formation of a host-guest homoternary complex with CB[8] and aromatic amino-acid-bearing PA nanofibers, resulting in hierarchical morphologies and increased stiffness compared to ion-based equivalents. This alternative cross-linking method can upgrade the design of PA materials and extend their biomedical applications, while maintaining similar biocompatibilities between the new and conventional hydrogels.
BIOCONJUGATE CHEMISTRY
(2022)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Shengke Li, Yan Gao, Yuanfu Ding, Anni Xu, Huaping Tan
Summary: Cucurbit[n]urils (CB[n]s) have emerged as promising building blocks for supramolecular nano drug delivery systems (SNDDS), showing stimuli responsiveness towards various stimuli for drug release. Recent breakthroughs in direct functionalization of CB[n]s have provided feasible methods for preparing superior derivatives for multifunctional SNDDS.
CHINESE CHEMICAL LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Nikoleta Kircheva, Stefan Dobrev, Lyubima Dasheva, Valya Nikolova, Silvia Angelova, Todor Dudev
Summary: With the emergence of host-guest systems, complexation chemistry has found wide application in various industries. Cucurbiturils (CB) have gained popularity due to their better qualities as cavitands compared to cyclodextrins and calixarenes. Metal cations can enhance the complexation abilities of CB, either by competitively binding to the host entity or cooperatively associating with the CB@guest structures. This study investigates the role of two metal species (Mg2+ and Ga3+) in complex formation with three dye molecules and identifies various key factors influencing the process.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Chenrui Jiang, Zhaorui Song, Meriem Fizir, Ping Yang, Meiru Liu, Pierre Dramou, Hua He
Summary: The study showed that cucurbit[6]uril has a strong binding force with chain amino acids leucine and methionine, forming a host-guest inclusion complex, while the interaction with valine is weak. The alkyl moieties of leucine, methionine, and valine are contained in the hydrophobic cavity of cucurbit[6]uril.
CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Liqiao Hu, Ming Lei, Jingjing Zhang, Yongping Dong
Summary: In this study, a competitive host-guest interaction was used to develop an off-on-off mode sensor based on ECL, for the quantitative detection of amantadine. Under optimal conditions, the sensor showed a good detection range and limit for amantadine, with outstanding specificity and accuracy.
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Shubhra Kanti Bhaumik, Sourav Kumar Panda, Supratim Banerjee
Summary: Host-guest assemblies of halo-phenyl pyridine derivatives and cucurbit[8]uril (CB[8]) showed pH-responsive room temperature phosphorescence in aqueous media. Additionally, they acted as efficient light-harvesting systems, demonstrating triplet-singlet energy transfer to various acceptor dyes.
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Xiaoqing Miao, Ye Li, Ian Wyman, Simon M. Y. Lee, Donal H. Macartney, Ying Zheng, Ruibing Wang
Article
Chemistry, Medicinal
Shengke Li, Huanxian Chen, Xue Yang, David Bardelang, Ian W. Wyman, Jianbo Wan, Simon M. Y. Lee, Ruibing Wang
ACS MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
(2015)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Muhammad Rabnawaz, Zijie Wang, Yu Wang, Ian Wyman, Heng Hu, Guojun Liu
Article
Materials Science, Composites
Jingyuan Chen, Ximing Zhong, Jing Lin, Ian Wyman, Ganwei Zhang, Hui Yang, Jinben Wang, Jiazhong Wu, Xu Wu
COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2016)
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Shengke Li, Hang Yin, Ian W. Wyman, Qingwen Zhang, Donal H. Macartney, Ruibing Wang
JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2016)
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Shengke Li, Ian W. Wyman, Chunming Wang, Yitao Wang, Donal H. Macartney, Ruibing Wang
JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2016)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Shengke Li, Hang Yin, Gudrun Martinz, Ian W. Wyman, David Bardelang, Donal H. Macartney, Ruibing Wang
NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
(2016)
Review
Chemistry, Applied
Xu Wu, Ian Wyman, Ganwei Zhang, Jing Lin, Zhaoqing Liu, Yu Wang, Heng Hu
PROGRESS IN ORGANIC COATINGS
(2016)
Review
Polymer Science
Yue Zheng, Ian W. Wyman
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Ganwei Zhang, Shudong Lin, Ian Wyman, Hailiang Zou, Jiwen Hu, Guojun Liu, Jiandong Wang, Fei Li, Feng Liu, Meilong Hu
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2013)
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Hee-Jun Park, Soo-Byung Ko, Ian W. Wyman, Suning Wang
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2014)
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Yufei Li, Youngjin Kang, Jia-Sheng Lu, Ian Wyman, Soo-Byung Ko, Suning Wang
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Ian Wyman, Liu GuoJun
SCIENCE CHINA-CHEMISTRY
(2013)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Huanxian Chen, Judy Y. W. Chan, Xue Yang, Ian W. Wyman, David Bardelang, Donal H. Macartney, Simon M. Y. Lee, Ruibing Wang
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Huanxian Chen, Judy Y. W. Chan, Shengke Li, Jessica J. Liu, Ian W. Wyman, Simon M. Y. Lee, Donal H. Macartney, Ruibing Wang
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Faiza Diaba, Gisela Trenchs
Summary: The first violet light-mediated synthesis of gamma- and delta-lactams from N-alkenyl trichloroacetamides is reported in this paper. The reactions are conducted in tetrahydrofuran or 2-methyltetrahydrofuran as the sole solvent without catalysts or additives, under non-anhydrous conditions in an air atmosphere where the solvent serves as the radical initiator.
ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
(2024)
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Feroze Hussain, Sajjad Ahmed, Ashiq Hussain Padder, Qazi Naveed Ahmed
Summary: This study reports a novel and efficient one-pot synthesis method for mixed phosphorotrithioates, which does not require supplementary additives and shows broad applicability.
ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
(2024)
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Hyunjin Oh, Ikyon Kim
Summary: A new 1,2,4-triazole-pyrrolo[1,2-a]pyrazine hybrid system, 6-acylpyrrolo[1,2-a][1,2,4]triazolo[5,1-c]pyrazine, was synthesized using a catalyst-free method. This method involved sequential exposure of pyrrole-2-carbonitrile-derived substrates to DMF-DMA and acyl hydrazide, resulting in the formation of acylated pyrazine and 1,2,4-triazole rings, enabling the installation of various substituents at specific positions on the core skeleton.
ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
(2024)
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Ming Yan, Si-fan Wang, Yong-po Zhang, Jin-zhong Zhao, Zhuo Tang, Guang-xun Li
Summary: Here we developed an efficient photocatalytic approach for the convenient preparation of sulfinamides. The reaction allows for the gram-scale preparation of sulfinamides and the one-pot synthesis of various sulfonyl amides.
ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
(2024)
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Farzaneh Bandehali-Naeini, Zahra Tanbakouchian, Noushin Farajinia-Lehi, Nicolas Mayer, Morteza Shiri, Martin Breugst
Summary: Two tandem catalytic systems were developed for the synthesis of novel 3,4-disubstituted maleimides using the same Ugi adducts. Different maleimide structures can be synthesized using either Pd or Cu catalysis.
ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
(2024)
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Tanya Raghava, Anjan Chattopadhyay, Subhadeep Banerjee, Nivedita Sarkar
Summary: Amine substitution of two ortho fluorine atoms of tetrafluoroterephthalonitrile through SNAr chemistry is easily achievable. But further fluorine substitution is only possible under forcing conditions, yielding valuable fluorophores for bioimaging.
ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
(2024)
Review
Chemistry, Organic
Anju Chadha, Santosh Kumar Padhi, Selvaraj Stella, Sowmyalakshmi Venkataraman, Thangavelu Saravanan
Summary: Alcohol dehydrogenases are enzymes that use cofactors for oxidation or reduction reactions of alcohols or carbonyl compounds. They are utilized in green chemistry and have applications in the production of pharmaceuticals. Recombinant enzymes have solved the challenge of producing purified enzymes in large quantities. Engineered alcohol dehydrogenases have been used in asymmetric synthesis in industry. Various methods have been established for regenerating expensive cofactors to make the enzymatic process more efficient and economically viable.
ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
(2024)