The aim of the work presented herein is to couple Au(I) complexes to small peptide building blocks in order to prepare new <i>C</i><sub>3</sub>-symmetical metalloamphiphiles as supramolecular monomers. These molecular building blocks are based on dendritic β-sheet encoded peptide amphiphiles and induce supramolecular polymerization into 1D nanorods. The control of the self-assembly of these dendritic Au(I)-metalloamphiphiles results from the interplay of intermolecular non-covalent attractive interactions between the peptidic backbones - mainly hydrogen bonding and the hydrophobic effect - as well as steric and electrostatic repulsive forces of the dendritic side chains. The degree of the self- and disassembly in water as well as the morphology and size of the resulting anisotropic (bio)organic-inorganic hybrid materials will be discussed.

Controlled self-assembly of peptidic Au(I)-metalloamphiphiles into 1D nanorods in water

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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