Poly(isoglycerol methacrylate)-b-poly(dorl-lactide) Copolymers: A Novel Hydrophilic Methacrylate as Building Block for Supramolecular Aggregates

AbstractThin films (1-24 layers) of bis-zinc ethane-bridged porphyrin dimer (1) have been transferred on solid surfaces, by the Langmuir- Schäfer (LS) horizontal method. The related surface pressurearea isotherm curve shows that in dependence of the film pressure different condensed phases may occur in the monolayer. The inspection of the monolayer by Brewster Angle Microscopy (BAM) reveals the presence of peculiar networks whose structural features seemingly change upon film compression. On the other hand, the Scanning Force Microscopy (SFM) analysis performed on LS films shows fractal networks constituted by nanoscopic supramolecular aggregates, whose shape and size depend again on the LS deposition surface pressure. Finally, also UV-vis spectroscopy measurements indicates that the absorption is almost linearly related to the film thickness that is directly connected to the surface pressure.

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Microbe Engineering of Guaia-6,10(14)-diene as a Building Block for the Semisynthetic Production of Plant-Derived (−)-Englerin A

10.26434/chemrxiv.10333625.v1 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Thomas Siemon ◽

Zhangqian Wang ◽

Guangkai Bian ◽

Tobias Seitz ◽

Ziling Ye ◽

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Keyword(s):

Escherichia Coli ◽

Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽

Synthetic Biology ◽

Chemical Synthesis ◽

Building Block ◽

Transient Receptor Potential ◽

Receptor Potential ◽

Economical Method ◽

Englerin A ◽

Transient Receptor

Herein, we report the semisynthetic production of the potent transient receptor potential canonical (TRPC) channel agonist (−)-englerin A (EA), using guaia-6,10(14)-diene as the starting material. Guaia-6,10(14)-diene was systematically engineered in Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae using the CRISPR/Cas9 system and produced with high titers. This provided us the opportunity to execute a concise chemical synthesis of EA and the two related guaianes (−)-oxyphyllol and (+)-orientalol E. The potentially scalable approach combines the advantages of synthetic biology and chemical synthesis and provides an efficient and economical method for producing EA as well as its analogs.

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Microbe Engineering of Guaia-6,10(14)-diene as a Building Block for the Semisynthetic Production of Plant-Derived (−)-Englerin A

10.26434/chemrxiv.10333625 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Thomas Siemon ◽

Zhangqian Wang ◽

Guangkai Bian ◽

Tobias Seitz ◽

Ziling Ye ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Escherichia Coli ◽

Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽

Synthetic Biology ◽

Chemical Synthesis ◽

Building Block ◽

Transient Receptor Potential ◽

Receptor Potential ◽

Economical Method ◽

Englerin A ◽

Transient Receptor

Herein, we report the semisynthetic production of the potent transient receptor potential canonical (TRPC) channel agonist (−)-englerin A (EA), using guaia-6,10(14)-diene as the starting material. Guaia-6,10(14)-diene was systematically engineered in Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae using the CRISPR/Cas9 system and produced with high titers. This provided us the opportunity to execute a concise chemical synthesis of EA and the two related guaianes (−)-oxyphyllol and (+)-orientalol E. The potentially scalable approach combines the advantages of synthetic biology and chemical synthesis and provides an efficient and economical method for producing EA as well as its analogs.

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Ultrastrong, Free-Standing and Large Nanofilms of Pyrenearamid

10.26434/chemrxiv.8182088 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Amalia Rapakousiou ◽

Alejandro López-moreno ◽

Belén Nieto-Ortega ◽

M. Mar Bernal ◽

Miguel A. Monclús ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mechanical Properties ◽

Building Block ◽

Aromatic Polyamide ◽

Free Standing ◽

Spatial Confinement ◽

Polymeric Structure ◽

Reduced Modulus ◽

Organizational Arrangement ◽

Polycyclic Aromatic ◽

Nanoscale Building Block

We introduce poly(1,6-pyrene terephthalamide) polymer (PPyrTA) as an aromatic polyamide analogue of poly(p-phenylene terephthalamide) (PPTA), also known as Kevlar®. This work shows that the incorporation of polycyclic aromatic pyrene moieties improves drastically the mechanical properties of the polymeric structure, increasing elastic nanoindentation-determined modulus and hardness by factors of 1.9 and 4.3, respectively. Liquid deprotonated dispersions of PPyrTA nanofibers were used as nanoscale building block for producing large-surface, free-standing polymer macroscopic nanofilms. This 2D assembly leads to further significant improvements in reduced modulus and hardness (more than twice) compared to the starting polymer macroscale fibres, due to a better re-organizational arrangement of the PPyrTA nanofibers in the nanofilms, formed under 2D spatial confinement.

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Thienopyrrolocarbazoles: New Building Blocks for Functional Organic Materials

10.26434/chemrxiv.7777343.v1 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dorian Bader ◽

Johannes Fröhlich ◽

Paul Kautny

Keyword(s):

Building Block ◽

Organic Materials ◽

Building Blocks ◽

Molecular Properties ◽

The Family ◽

Facile Preparation

The facile preparation of three regioisomeric thienopyrrolocarbazoles applying a convenient C-H activation approach is presented. Derived from indolo[3,2,1-<i>jk</i>]carbazole, the incorporation of thiophene into the triarylamine framework significantly impacted the molecular properties of the parent scaffold. The developed thienopyrrolocarbazoles enrich the family of triarylamine donors and constitute a novel building block for functional organic materials.

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