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Single-component, low molecular weight organic supergelators based on chiral barbiturate scaffolds
journal contribution
posted on 2019-06-16, 16:03 authored by Daniel T. Seidenkranz, Kurt A. Langworthy, Lev N. Zakharov, Michael D. PluthWe report here the first chiral barbiturate to act as a single-component LMOG capable of gelating a variety of chlorinated and aromatic solvents. Solution-based DOSY NMR experiments, solid-state VP-SEM, and X-ray crystallography techniques were used to characterize chloroform-based gels at a variety of size domains. This scaffold provides a simple system to study the dynamics of gelation and self-assembly.