title: Self-assembly of Renewable  Nano-sized Triterpenoids.
abstract: Studies on plant metabolites have gained renewed interest in recent years because these can serve as renewable chemicals for the development of a sustainable society. Among various plant secondary metabolites, terpenoids constitute the major component and triterpenoids are the 30C subset of it. In recent years, triterpenoids have drawn the attention of scientific community due to many of its potential and realized applications in medicine, drug delivery, thermochromic materials, pollutant capture, catalysis, liquid crystals, etc. In this personal review, we have discussed our computational results carried out on sixty representative naturally occurring triterpenoids demonstrating that all the triterpenoids are renewable functional nano-entities. Study of the self-assembly of several triterpenoids such as betulin, betulinic acid, oleanolic acid, glycyrrhetinic acid and arjunolic acid and their derivatives in different liquids have also been discussed. Moreover, the utilization of the resulting supramolecular architectures such as vesicles, spheres, flowers and fibrillar networks of nano- to micrometer dimensions and gels have also been discussed in the perspective of green, renewable and nanos.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Vidyasagar Univesity, Midnapore, 721102, West Bengal, India.
authors.forename: Braja Gopal
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Bag
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Vidyasagar Univesity, Midnapore, 721102, West Bengal, India.
authors.forename: Rakhi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Majumdar
mesh_terms: D003500:Cyclization; D005782:Gels / Q000737:chemistry; D006034:Glycyrrhetinic Acid / Q000737:chemistry; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D009828:Oleanolic Acid / Q000737:chemistry; D053978:Pentacyclic Triterpenes; D010944:Plants / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D013729:Terpenes / Q000737:chemistry*; D014315:Triterpenes / Q000737:chemistry; D000094062:Betulinic Acid
chemical_list: D005782:Gels; D053978:Pentacyclic Triterpenes; D013729:Terpenes; D014315:Triterpenes; C061640:arjunolic acid; D009828:Oleanolic Acid; C002503:betulin; D006034:Glycyrrhetinic Acid; D000094062:Betulinic Acid
keywords: drug entrapment; gel; hybrid material; self-assembly; triterpenoids