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ArticleChemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2021

Molecular Recognition of Disaccharides in Water: Preorganized Macrocyclic or Adaptive Acyclic?

Oscar Francesconi, Francesco Milanesi, Cristina Nativi, Stefano Roelens

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Article in Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Molecular Tweezers for Biomimetic Recognition of Carbohydrates.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2025
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  3. Carbazole Framework as Functional Scaffold for the Design of Synthetic Receptors.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Oscar FrancesconiDepartment of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff" and INSTM, University of Florence, Polo Scientifico e Tecnologico, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6155-4926
Francesco MilanesiDepartment of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff" and INSTM, University of Florence, Polo Scientifico e Tecnologico, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1981-5811
Cristina NativiDepartment of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff" and INSTM, University of Florence, Polo Scientifico e Tecnologico, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-3230
Stefano RoelensDepartment of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff" and INSTM, University of Florence, Polo Scientifico e Tecnologico, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9763-3263
National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology · ITInteruniversity Consortium for Magnetic Resonance · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When facing the dilemma of following a preorganized or adaptive design approach in conceiving the architecture of new biomimetic receptors for carbohydrates, shape-persistent macrocyclic structures were most often chosen to achieve effective recognition of neutral saccharides in water. In contrast, acyclic architectures have seldom been explored, even though potentially simpler and more easily accessible. In this work, comparison of the binding properties of two structurally related diaminocarbazolic receptors, featuring a macrocyclic and an acyclic tweezer-shaped architecture, highlighted the advantages provided by the acyclic receptor in terms of selectivity in the recognition of 1,4-disaccharides of biological interest. Selective recognition of GlcNAc

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DisaccharidesWaterCarbohydratesHydrogen BondingModels, MolecularCarbohydratesDisaccharidesWatercarbohydrateschitobiosehydrogen bondsmolecular recognitionreceptors

Identifiers

PMID33945180
PMCPMC8361761
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