BUSCADOR RECOLECTA

Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC

oai:digital.csic.es:10261/383520

The molecular recognition of saccharides by synthetic hosts has become an appealing but elusive task in the last decades. Herein, we combine Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry (DCC) for the rapid self-assembly and screening of virtual libraries of receptors, with the use of ITC and NMR to validate the hits and molecular modelling to understand the binding mechanisms. We discovered a minimalistic receptor, 1F (N-benzyl-L-phenylalanine), with considerable affinity for fructose (Ka = 1762 M-1) and remarkable selectivity (>50-fold) over other common monosaccharides. The approach accelerates the discovery process of receptors for saccharides., This work is financially supported by Prostate Cancer UK (RIA17-ST2-020) and MCI/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (ref. project PID2021-128411NB-I00)., Peer reviewed