Tetraureas versus triureas in sulfate binding

Chuandong Jia, Biao Wu*, Shaoguang Li, Xiaojuan Huang, Xiao Juan Yang

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Abstract

By mimicking the scaffolds of oligopyridine-based ligands, triurea and tetraurea receptors have been developed for sulfate binding. The triureas (L1, L2) show stronger binding of sulfate than tetraureas (L3, L4) in DMSO because of their better conformational complementarity with sulfate, while the tetraureas display better "water tolerance" benefiting from the chelate effect and hydrophobic effect.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5612-5615
Number of pages4
JournalOrganic Letters
Volume12
Issue number24
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Dec 2010
Externally publishedYes

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