A systematic understanding of gelation self-assembly: solvophobically assisted supramolecular gelation via conformational reorientation across amide functionality on a hydrophobically modulated dipeptide based ambidextrous gelator, N-n-acyl-(l)Val-X(OBn), (X = 1,ω-amino acid)

Abstract

Gelator backbone conformational flexibility plays an important role in a supramolecular self-assembly which is synergistically assisted by solvophobic interaction leading to a gelation of three sets of hydrophobically modulated dipeptidic gelators.