Issue 46, 2015
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Chemical Communications

Binding or aggregation? Hazards of interpretation in studies of molecular recognition by porphyrins in water†

Charles M. Renney,ab   Gaku Fukuhara,b   Yoshihisa Inoueb  and  Anthony P. Davis*a  

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a School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK
E-mail: Anthony.Davis@bristol.ac.uk
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b Department of Applied Chemistry, Osaka University, Suita 565-0871, Japan

Abstract

Reports have suggested that polar porphyrins such as tetraphenylporphine tetrasulfonate (TPPS) can serve as carbohydrate receptors in water. Here we find that TPPS shows changes in UV-visible absorption when treated with glucose, but that these are best explained by altered aggregation states and not by formation of a closely-bound complex.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CC02768C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
02 Apr 2015
Accepted
06 May 2015
First published
06 May 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 9551-9554

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C. M. Renney, G. Fukuhara, Y. Inoue and A. P. Davis, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 9551 DOI: 10.1039/C5CC02768C

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