Enhanced stability in rigid peptide-based porous materials.
Martí-Gastaldo, Carlos;Warren, John E;Stylianou, Kyriakos C;Flack, Natasha L O;Rosseinsky, Matthew J;
angewandte chemie (international ed in english)2012Vol. 51pp. 11044-8
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Abstract
Pepped up: Notwithstanding the intrinsic conformational flexibility of peptides, [Zn(Gly-Thr)(2)] behaves as a robust porous metal-organic framework thanks to the rigidity introduced by the use of Gly-Thr (see scheme). This rigidity arises from the sequence of amino acids in the dipeptide that locks its conformational flexibility in the framework.