Sensing, threading, orienting, and cutting polymers with rigid-rod pores.
This short review describes synthetic pores that are made from rigid-rod molecules and can bind oligo-and polymers such as polyacetylenes, p-oligophenyls, terpenoids, polypeptides, polysaccharides, and oligonucleotides. The spotlight is on recent breakthroughs to image the longtime elusive pore-polymer host-guest complexes as single giant pseudorotaxanes.
Matile
Stefan
S
Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Stefan.Matile@chiorg.unige.ch
Sakai
Naomi
N
Mareda
Jiri
J
Kumaki
Jiro
J
Yashima
Eiji
E
D049990:Membrane Transport Modulators / Q000737:chemistry*; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D016062:Porosity; D043862:Rotaxanes / Q000737:chemistry*
D049990:Membrane Transport Modulators; D011108:Polymers; D043862:Rotaxanes