Protonation and deprotonation induced organo/hydrogelation: Bile acid derived gelators containing a basic side chain

• Uday Maitra and
• Arkajyoti Chakrabarty

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 304–309, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.40

• . Keywords: bile acid derived amines; organogelator and hydrogelator; protonation and deprotonation induced gelation; SEM and POM; thermal stability; Introduction Low molecular mass organo- and hydrogelators (LMOG) have attracted considerable attention in recent years due to their tunable physical

• ) and sonication-induced (black) gels). Gelators 1 and 2. General method of synthesis of bile acid derived amines 1 and 2. Gelation behaviour of 1 and 2a. Acknowledgements We thank the department of Science & Technology, New Delhi for financial assistance (J. C. Bose Fellowship to UM). AC thanks the