- 著者
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竹内 正之
- 出版者
- The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan
- 雑誌
- 有機合成化学協会誌 (ISSN:00379980)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.56, no.10, pp.831-840, 1998 (Released:2009-11-16)
- 参考文献数
- 26
- 被引用文献数
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3
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For the development of new receptor molecules that can precisely recognize sugar molecules, we synthesized a number of diboronic acids. Since one boronic acid can react with two OH groups (one diol group) to form a boronate ester, one diboronic acid can immobilize two diol units to form a sugarcontaining macrocycle. The selectivity can be tuned by the relative spatial position of the two boronic acids and the complexation event can be read out by circular dichroism, UV-Vis, and fluorescence spectroscopy. The nature presents a variety of saccharide structures to us which are already utilized as a “recognition tag” or a “supramolecular building-blocks” in the life processes. If we gain some efficient interfaces to control chemical and physical properties of saccharides, it will become possible to mimic this chemistry in artificial systems. As a research target to challenge this new concept, we can now raise three examples which are currently studied in our laboratory.