Mechanical stability of bivalent transition metal complexes analyzed by single-molecule force spectroscopy

• Manuel Gensler,
• Christian Eidamshaus,
• Maurice Taszarek,
• Hans-Ulrich Reissig and
• Jürgen P. Rabe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 817–827, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.91

• systems. Keywords: molecular rupture mechanism; multivalency; malleability; pyridine coordination compounds; scanning force microscopy; Introduction In a multivalent molecular system, two partners interact with each other through two or more non-covalent equivalent interaction centers. This principle is

Biantennary oligoglycines and glyco-oligoglycines self-associating in aqueous medium

• Svetlana V. Tsygankova,
• Alexander A. Chinarev,
• Alexander B. Tuzikov,
• Nikolai Severin,
• Alexey A. Kalachev,
• Juergen P. Rabe,
• Alexandra S. Gambaryan and
• Nicolai V. Bovin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1372–1382, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.140

• media (Figure 2a,b). Study of biantennary peptides association using scanning force microscopy Scanning force microscopy (SFM) elucidates information not only about the association process both in solution and on a surface, but also about fine details of the formed architectures. Of particular interest

• dimensions exceeded the working limit of the instrument, the experiment was stopped. For experiments with biantennary sialooligoglycines their aqueous (Milli-Q) solutions with a concentration of 0.1 mg/mL were used. Scanning force microscopy (SFM) The samples were imaged with a Nanoscope IIIa instrument