Affiliation:
1. Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory, New Chemistry Unit and School of Advanced Materials (SAMat) Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) Jakkur P. O. Bengaluru 560064 Karnataka India tgraju@jncasr.ac.in
Abstract
This chapter presents biomolecules-guided molecular architectonics to generate well-defined molecular and nanoarchitectures with functional properties and applications. Biomolecules with in-built information for molecular recognition serve as auxiliaries to guide the molecular organization of functional molecules to harvest emergent properties with functional relevance. Biomolecular auxiliaries, functional core molecules and the derived modular building blocks are discussed along with various parameters, viz., noncovalent interactions, chirality and the experimental parameters that guide the process of controlled molecular organization. Some of the representative examples are presented to familiarize the reader with the detailed scheme of molecular architectonics. These specific examples help to understand the concept of molecular architectonics to generate nanoarchitectures with diverse applications from materials science to biomedicine.
Publisher
The Royal Society of Chemistry