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

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Kazutaka Murata · Development Bank of Japan

Masayoshi Aoki · Development Bank of Japan

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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Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry

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Published in: Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications

DOI: 10.1039/c39910001715

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

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