Chiroptical Transcription of Helical Information through Supramolecular Harmonization with Dynamic Helices
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- 31 December 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Vol. 126 (3) , 716-717
Abstract
With biologically important “peptide bundling” as the motif, new chromophoric cyclic host 1 was designed, which consists of two zinc porphyrin units that are connected by dynamic peptide helices of nonameric aminoisobutyric acid (Aib) units. Upon inclusion of pyridine-anchored helical peptides between the zinc porphyrin units, 1 displayed an intense exciton-coupled circular dichroism (CD) band at 410−450 nm, whose sign reflected the helical sense of the guest peptides. Studies with conformationally defined dehydrophenylalanine-containing analogues indicated that the dynamic helical chains in the host are stereochemically harmonized with right- or left-handed helices of the guest peptides in a confined nano space, leading to either clockwise- or anticlockwise-twisted geometry (chiroptical output) of the connecting zinc porphyrin chromophores.Keywords
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