ChemSystemsChemPub Date : 2023-04-26DOI: 10.1002/syst.202300020
Ronny Kürsteiner, Dr. Guido Panzarasa
{"title":"Acid Autocatalysis Best Served Hot: The Chlorate–Sulfite–Gluconolactone System as a Thermochemical Clock","authors":"Ronny Kürsteiner, Dr. Guido Panzarasa","doi":"10.1002/syst.202300020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/syst.202300020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The front cover artwork is provided by Guido Panzarasa (ETH Zürich). The image shows an artistic impression of the autonomous, time-programmable temperature increase alongside acid generation in the chlorate-sulfite-gluconolactone reaction network. Read the full text of the Research Article at 10.1002/syst.202200042.</p>","PeriodicalId":72566,"journal":{"name":"ChemSystemsChem","volume":"5 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/syst.202300020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50144298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemSystemsChemPub Date : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.1002/syst.202300021
Ronny Kürsteiner, Dr. Guido Panzarasa
{"title":"Front Cover: Acid Autocatalysis Best Served Hot: The Chlorate–Sulfite–Gluconolactone System as a Thermochemical Clock (ChemSystemsChem 3/2023)","authors":"Ronny Kürsteiner, Dr. Guido Panzarasa","doi":"10.1002/syst.202300021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/syst.202300021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>The Front Cover</b> represents an artist impression of the autonomous, time-programmable temperature increase alongside acid generation in the chlorate-sulfite-gluconolactone reaction network. The reaction mixture, an aqueous solution of chlorate, sulfite and δ-gluconolactone, is contained in a beaker. The blue color suggests that the pH is basic, and the thermometer indicates that the mixture is at room temperature. The clock shows the time at which the reactants have been mixed. The hydrolysis of δ-gluconolactone triggers the acid-autocatalyzed exothermic chlorate-sulfite reaction. As a result, after some time the content of the beaker has become highly acidic (red color) and hot (vapors, and thermometer indicating a higher temperature). More information can be found in the Research Article by Ronny Kürsteiner and Guido Panzarasa .\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":72566,"journal":{"name":"ChemSystemsChem","volume":"5 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/syst.202300021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50154138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemSystemsChemPub Date : 2023-04-11DOI: 10.1002/syst.202200050
Zhanhu Sun, Bowen Fan, Prof. Matthew J. Webber
{"title":"Molecular Engineering of Carbohydrate Recognition","authors":"Zhanhu Sun, Bowen Fan, Prof. Matthew J. Webber","doi":"10.1002/syst.202200050","DOIUrl":"10.1002/syst.202200050","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Carbohydrates play a number of structural, functional, and metabolic roles in underpinning natural life processes, acting in states of both health and disease. Given this importance, over millions of years of evolution, living systems have developed an ability to recognize and bind carbohydrates, achieving remarkable recognition affinity and specificity in spite of the often hydrophilic and ubiquitous character of carbohydrate targets. In recent years, bio-inspired synthetic receptors have been developed to bind carbohydrates, with examples of (pseudo)temple-shaped receptors, flexible receptors, and dynamic-covalent/coordinative receptors reported. Certain of these have even demonstrated promising results, for example in binding glucose or exhibiting antiviral and antibiotic function. Accordingly, and in spite of remaining challenges, the development of synthetic receptors for carbohydrate recognition holds great promise to combat some of the most urgent problems facing our world today.</p>","PeriodicalId":72566,"journal":{"name":"ChemSystemsChem","volume":"5 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48673354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemSystemsChemPub Date : 2023-03-22DOI: 10.1002/syst.202300007
Dr. T.-Y. Dora Tang, Dr. Avinash J. Patil
{"title":"Protocells and Prebiotic Systems","authors":"Dr. T.-Y. Dora Tang, Dr. Avinash J. Patil","doi":"10.1002/syst.202300007","DOIUrl":"10.1002/syst.202300007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>The de novo synthesis and self-assembly</b> of molecules to establish the framework of living systems is a key target in the field of systems chemistry. The construction of synthetic cellular systems from scratch is one important such route to achieve this goal. This Special Collection on Protocells and Prebiotic Systems, guest edited by Dora Tang and Avinash J. Patil, showcases some of the most exciting work done in this field today. (D.Tang photograph copyright MPI-CBG).\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":72566,"journal":{"name":"ChemSystemsChem","volume":"5 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/syst.202300007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46162561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemSystemsChemPub Date : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.1002/syst.202300003
Dr. Ze-Fan Yao, Yuyao Kuang, Phillip Kohl, Dr. Youli Li, Prof. Dr. Herdeline Ann M. Ardoña
{"title":"Carbodiimide-Fueled Assembly of π-Conjugated Peptides Regulated by Electrostatic Interactions**","authors":"Dr. Ze-Fan Yao, Yuyao Kuang, Phillip Kohl, Dr. Youli Li, Prof. Dr. Herdeline Ann M. Ardoña","doi":"10.1002/syst.202300003","DOIUrl":"10.1002/syst.202300003","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Peptides naturally have stimuli-adaptive structural conformations that are advantageous for endowing synthetic materials with dynamic functionalities. Here, we report a carbodiimide-based approach, combined with electrostatic modulation, to instruct π-conjugated peptides to self-assemble and be responsive to thermal disassembly cues upon consumption of the assembly trigger. Quaterthiophene-functionalized peptides are utilized as a model system herein to study the formation of nanostructures at non-equilibrium states. Peptides were designed to have aspartic acid at the termini to allow intramolecular anhydride formation upon adding carbodiimide, which consequentially reduces the electrostatic repulsion and facilitates assembly. We show that the carbodiimide-fueled assembly and subsequent thermally assisted disassembly can be modulated by the net charge of the peptidic monomers, suggesting an assembly mechanism that can be encoded by sequence design. This carbodiimide-based approach for the assembly of designer π-conjugated systems offers a unique opportunity to develop bioelectronic supramolecular materials with controllable formation of dynamic and stimuli-responsive structures.</p>","PeriodicalId":72566,"journal":{"name":"ChemSystemsChem","volume":"5 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/syst.202300003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43287003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemSystemsChemPub Date : 2023-02-22DOI: 10.1002/syst.202300005
Dr. Brigitta Dúzs, Dr. István Lagzi, Dr. István Szalai
{"title":"Front Cover: Functional Rhythmic Chemical Systems Governed by pH-Driven Kinetic Feedback (ChemSystemsChem 2/2023)","authors":"Dr. Brigitta Dúzs, Dr. István Lagzi, Dr. István Szalai","doi":"10.1002/syst.202300005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/syst.202300005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>The Front Cover</b> depicts an hourglass and suggests a pH variation over time. The temporal variation of pH caused by hydrogen or hydroxide ion autocatalytic reactions provides a convenient way to control the state or drive the mechanical motion of coupled pH-sensitive physicochemical systems. More information can be found in the Review by Brigitta Dúzs, István Lagzi and István Szalai.\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":72566,"journal":{"name":"ChemSystemsChem","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/syst.202300005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50140435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemSystemsChemPub Date : 2023-02-22DOI: 10.1002/syst.202300004
Dr. Brigitta Dúzs, Dr. István Lagzi, Dr. István Szalai
{"title":"Functional Rhythmic Chemical Systems Governed by pH-Driven Kinetic Feedback","authors":"Dr. Brigitta Dúzs, Dr. István Lagzi, Dr. István Szalai","doi":"10.1002/syst.202300004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/syst.202300004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The front cover artwork is provided by the Laboratory of Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics at Eötvös Loránd University and the Self-assembly and Self-Organization Research Group at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary. The image shows an hourglass and suggests a pH variation over time. pH-driven kinetic feedback is a key element of pH oscillatory mechanisms. These can be used as a driving program to induce periodic chemical and/or structural changes in a coupled pH-sensitive colloidal or macroscopic gel systems. Read the full text of the Review at 10.1002/syst.202200032.</p>","PeriodicalId":72566,"journal":{"name":"ChemSystemsChem","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/syst.202300004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50140436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemSystemsChemPub Date : 2023-02-15DOI: 10.1002/syst.202300002
Carlos Pimentel, Mingchuan Zheng, Julyan H. E. Cartwright, C. Ignacio Sainz-Díaz
{"title":"Chemobrionics Database: Categorisation of Chemical Gardens According to the Nature of the Anion, Cation and Experimental Procedure**","authors":"Carlos Pimentel, Mingchuan Zheng, Julyan H. E. Cartwright, C. Ignacio Sainz-Díaz","doi":"10.1002/syst.202300002","DOIUrl":"10.1002/syst.202300002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Considering the growing importance of the field of chemobrionics since the term was coined in 2015 and the increase in the number of published papers, it has become necessary to catalogue all the papers published to date. Here, we present the chemobrionics database, which lists all the chemical gardens synthesised according to their anion, cation and experimental protocol. The aim of this database is to encourage the study and dissemination of chemical gardens in order to find new experimental avenues in the field of chemobrionics. As this is such a fruitful field, the database is continuously updated.</p>","PeriodicalId":72566,"journal":{"name":"ChemSystemsChem","volume":"5 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48773013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemSystemsChemPub Date : 2023-02-03DOI: 10.1002/syst.202200036
Jiahui Li, Dr. Liang Wang, Chunyu Pan, Prof. Bai Yang, Prof. Yunfeng Li
{"title":"Transient Biomacromolecular Nanoparticles for Labels with Self-Erasable and Rewritable Ability","authors":"Jiahui Li, Dr. Liang Wang, Chunyu Pan, Prof. Bai Yang, Prof. Yunfeng Li","doi":"10.1002/syst.202200036","DOIUrl":"10.1002/syst.202200036","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Nature utilizes non-equilibrium self-assembly to achieve remarkable functions. Although such systems have been synthesized, this class of assembly is only sparsely explored in innovative materials with life-like functions. Here, we report transient nanoparticles driven by adenosine triphosphate and their applications on the self-erasable and rewritable security labels. We show that the lifetime of transient nanoparticles can be tuned from a few minutes to hundreds of minutes through adjusting concentrations of the components. By integrating the transient nanoparticles into hydrogels, we achieve self-erasable and rewritable labels with time- and space-encoded information encryption. Notably, a smart Morse code is implemented by programming the hydrogel labels in a spatiotemporal manner. This work provides an emerging material involving transient nanoparticles for information encryption, further accelerating the explorations of the new type information encryption materials.</p>","PeriodicalId":72566,"journal":{"name":"ChemSystemsChem","volume":"5 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44539378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemSystemsChemPub Date : 2023-01-25DOI: 10.1002/syst.202200043
Peimin Weng, Dr. Xiaosheng Yan, Prof. Dr. Yun-Bao Jiang
{"title":"Formation of Multiple Supramolecular Helices for Spontaneous Resolution","authors":"Peimin Weng, Dr. Xiaosheng Yan, Prof. Dr. Yun-Bao Jiang","doi":"10.1002/syst.202200043","DOIUrl":"10.1002/syst.202200043","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Relating supramolecular helices to the spontaneous resolution that generates conglomerate crystals is meaningful to the production of enantiopure compounds and to the understanding of natural homochirality as well. While homochiral elongation is favored along the axis of 1D supramolecular helical chains, conglomerate crystallization requires a 3D homochiral framework. This inspires us to explore new avenues to the spontaneous resolution through the formation of multiple supramolecular helices during crystallization. This Concept outlines and reviews multiple supramolecular helices found in the conglomerate crystals, i. e. three supramolecular helices along one crystallographic axis and two or three supramolecular helices along different crystallographic axes, followed by our observations of homochiral elongation of the helicity of the helical building blocks, the azapeptides, during the formation of supramolecular helices, as well as the spontaneous resolution of amino acid alanine that is made into a helical azapeptide derivative via the formation of supramolecular helices along two different crystallographic axes.</p>","PeriodicalId":72566,"journal":{"name":"ChemSystemsChem","volume":"5 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43122764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}