Anthraquinones can be found in various herbs1 and have known to exhibit many biological functions.2 Cleavage of DNA by irradiation of substituted anthraquinones are also reported.3 Present study discuss the synthesis and gelation studies of anthraquinonylalkanamides as low molecular mass gelators. Low molecular mass gelators are viscoelastic materials that can be considered as an important class of soft materials. The gelator molecule aggregate via weak intermolecular interactions such as hydrogen bonding, Van der Waals interactions and π-π stacking to form a three dimensional fibrillar network that can trap large amount of liquid. Anthraquinonylalkanamides with varying alkyl chain length have been synthesized and characterized. Gelation studies of synthesized compounds have been examined in 19 different polarity liquids. Correlations between the molecular structures of the anthraquinonylalkanamide gelators and the properties of their gels, including critical gelator concentrations, periods of stability, and gel-sol transition temperatures, thermodynamic and spectroscopic properties will be presented.

Synthesis, self-assembly, gelation studies of anthraquinonylalkanamides based low molecular mass gelators

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