Solvent-induced Gel Formation Hypothesis for Natural Product Gelators with Polycyclic Structures

文献类型: 外文期刊

第一作者: Zhi, Kangkang

作者: Zhi, Kangkang;Zhao, Haitian;Yang, Xin;Zhang, Hua;Wang, Jing;Wang, Zhenyu;Wang, Jing

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关键词: natural product; natural product gelators; natural product gel; gel formation; solvent

期刊名称:CHEMPLUSCHEM ( 影响因子:2.863; 五年影响因子:3.051 )

ISSN: 2192-6506

年卷期: 2018 年 83 卷 8 期

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收录情况: SCI

摘要: Natural products have long been used as pharmaceutical actives for the treatment of diseases. More recently, natural products with the ability to self-assemble to form soft material-gels, i.e. natural product gelators (NPGs), were discovered. This subverts our traditional insight into natural products as drugs and drives us to elucidate how NPGs form gels. Here, we interpret why gel from the perspective of solvents based on the basic theory of thermodynamics for liquids, and then propose the hypothesis of solvent-induced gel formation in combination with the NPGs with polycyclic structures. This hypothesis provides a complete explanation of how the gelator and solvent play a role in the overall gel formation and helps us to more easily understand the gelation.

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