Aromatic amide foldamers: structures, properties, and functions

DW Zhang, X Zhao, JL Hou, ZT Li - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
The past several decades have witnessed great progress in the understanding of the high-
order structure of biomacromolecules. Currently, it is well-recognized that folding of proteins …

DNA-multichromophore systems

YN Teo, ET Kool - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION: GOALS OF MULTICHROMOPHORE STUDIES Multichromophoric
systems have gained intense interest in recent decades. 1 The arraying of chromophores at …

Room temperature charge-transfer phosphorescence from organic donor–acceptor Co-crystals

S Garain, SN Ansari, AA Kongasseri, BC Garain… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Engineering the electronic excited state manifolds of organic molecules can give rise to
various functional outcomes, including ambient triplet harvesting, that has received …

Synthetic foldamers

G Guichard, I Huc - Chemical Communications, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Foldamers are artificial folded molecular architectures inspired by the structures and
functions of biopolymers. This highlight focuses on important developments concerning …

Unleashing Ambient Triplet Harvesting Pathways in Arylene Diimides via Modular, Noncovalent Charge Transfer Interactions

AA Kongasseri, S Garain, SN Ansari… - Chemistry of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Development of organic molecules that can harvest triplet excitons under ambient conditions
by a relatively simple strategy holds great promise in the paradigm of photophysics …

Exciplex Emission and Förster Resonance Energy Transfer in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon-Based Bischromophoric Cyclophanes and Homo [2] catenanes

A Garci, S Abid, AHG David, LO Jones… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Energy transfer and exciplex emission are not only crucial photophysical processes in many
living organisms but also important for the development of smart photonic materials. We …

Enabling light work in helical self-assembly for dynamic amplification of chirality with photoreversibility

Y Cai, Z Guo, J Chen, W Li, L Zhong… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Light-driven transcription and replication are always subordinate to a delicate chirality
transfer. Enabling light work in construction of the helical self-assembly with reversible chiral …

Inhibition of β-catenin/B cell lymphoma 9 protein− protein interaction using α-helix–mimicking sulfono-γ-AApeptide inhibitors

P Sang, M Zhang, Y Shi, C Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The rational design of α-helix–mimicking peptidomimetics provides a streamlined approach
to discover potent inhibitors for protein− protein interactions (PPIs). However, designing cell …

α-Helix-mimicking sulfono-γ-AApeptide inhibitors for p53–MDM2/MDMX protein–protein interactions

P Sang, Y Shi, J Lu, L Chen, L Yang… - Journal of medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The use of peptidomimetic scaffolds is a promising strategy for the inhibition of protein–
protein interactions (PPIs). Herein, we demonstrate that sulfono-γ-AApeptides can be …

Exo-chirality of the α-helix

JM Martínez-Parra, R Gómez-Ojea, GA Daudey… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The structure of helical polymers is dictated by the molecular chirality of their monomer units.
Particularly, macromolecular helices with monomer sequence control have the potential to …