DOI: 10.1039/d3ob00919j ISSN: 1477-0520
Anion binding and transport with meso-alkyl substituted two-armed calix[4]pyrroles bearing urea and hydroxyl groups
Małgorzata Pamuła, Evgeny Bulatov, Luis Martínez-Crespo, Anniina Kiesilä, Julia Naulapää, Elina Kalenius, Kaisa Helttunen- Organic Chemistry
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Biochemistry
The cis isomer of a calix[4]pyrrole bearing two urea-functionalized arms wraps around a chloride anion and shows 10 times higher transport activity into liposomes than the corresponding trans isomer, which can only use one arm for anion binding.