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Solid-phase Pd-catalysed cross-coupling methods for the construction of π-conjugated peptide nanomaterials
Sanders, Allix M.,Tovar, John D.
, p. 259 - 266 (2014/05/06)
We describe the development of two procedures for the synthesis of peptides that are embedded with a variety of π-conjugated semi-conducting oligomers. These procedures utilise solid-phase variants of classical palladium-catalysed cross-couplings commonly used to prepare π-conjugated oligomers. The resulting peptide-π-electron hybrids are soluble in aqueous media and self-assemble to produce 1D nanostructures, simultaneously forming networks of π-stacked conduits. The procedures have allowed for the inclusion of complex chromophores including mixed aryl units, ethynylene linkers and sexithiophenes where the latter peptide's nanostructures demonstrated substantial conductivity when employed as an active layer in a field-effect transistor.
On-resin dimerization incorporates a diverse array of π-conjugated functionality within aqueous self-assembling peptide backbones
Vadehra, Geeta S.,Wall, Brian D.,Diegelmann, Stephen R.,Tovar, John D.
supporting information; experimental part, p. 3947 - 3949 (2010/07/14)
We report a convenient method to incorporate π-electron units into peptides that assemble into amyloid-like supramolecular polymers, discussing the scope of the process and preliminary characterization of the resulting nanomaterials. Self-assembly manipulates these electronic peptides into delocalized sub-10 nm 1-D nanostructures under completely aqueous conditions.
