Self-Assembly of Functionalized Lipophilic Guanosines into Cation-Free Stacked Guanine-Quartets.

ABSTRACT: The hierarchical self-assembly of various lipophilic guanosines exposing either a phenyl or a ferrocenyl group in the C(8) position was investigated. In a solution, all the derivatives were found to self-assemble primarily into isolated guanine (G)-quartets. In spite of the apparent similar bulkiness of the two substituents, most of the derivatives form disordered structures in the solid state, whereas a specific 8-phenyl derivative self-assembles into an unprecedented, cation-free stacked G-quartet architecture.

SUBMITTER: Campitiello M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8389894 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature