title: Microporous organic materials from hydrophobic dipeptides.
abstract: In the last few years dipeptides with two hydrophobic residues (hydrophobic dipeptides) have emerged as an unexpected source of stable microporous organic materials. Supramolecular self-assembly of the rather small building blocks is dictated by stringent demands on the hydrogen-bond formation by the peptide main chains and the aggregation of hydrophobic entities in the side chains. A systematic survey of structures derived from single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies has revealed the existence of two large classes of structures, differing in the dimensionality of the hydrogen-bonding patterns in the crystals and the nature of the channels. The present review summarizes the structural properties of the microporous dipeptides and discusses their potential applications.
authors.affiliation: University of Oslo, Department of Chemistry, P.O.Box 1033 Blindern, 0315 Oslo, Norway. c.h.gorbitz@kjemi.uio.no
authors.forename: Carl Henrik
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Görbitz
mesh_terms: D004151:Dipeptides / Q000737:chemistry*; D057927:Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions; D008958:Models, Molecular; D016062:Porosity; D011487:Protein Conformation
chemical_list: D004151:Dipeptides