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New cholesterol-based gelators with light- and metal-responsive functions

Kazutaka Murata, Masayoshi Aoki, Tadahiko Nishi, Atsushi Ikeda, Seiji Shinkai

Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications · 1991 · 194 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

Cholesterol derivatives containing a benzocrown ether moiety or an azobenzene moiety coupled to C-3 of a steroidal moiety through an ester linkage are synthesized; some of them act as thermally reversible gelators of organic fluids and show novel light- and metal-responsive functions.

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