Design and synthesis of lipids for the fabrication of functional lipidic cubic-phase biomaterials.

Yazmin M Osornio, Peter Uebelhart, Silvan Bosshard, Fabian Konrad, Jay S Siegel, Ehud M Landau

Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.

The Journal of organic chemistry 2012 Dec 7

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A series of novel lipids with designed functionalities were synthesized. These lipids are based on conjugation of α-amino acids and their esters, cationic, anionic, neutral, and photochromic moieties to the lipophilic 9-cis octadecenyl chains by amide, ester, thioester, or amine bonds. Because of the plasticity of lipidic cubic phases, it is envisaged that when mixed with monooleoyl-rac-glycerol (monoolein, MO) and water at appropriate proportions, they would assemble to form bicontinuous lipidic cubic phases (LCPs) that exhibit the well-known material properties of LCPs such as phase stability, optical transparency, and chemical permeability. Moreover, due to the nature and position of the functionality at the headgroup region, we envision them to perform as functional materials by design.

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Yazmin M Osornio, Peter Uebelhart, Silvan Bosshard, Fabian Konrad, Jay S Siegel, Ehud M Landau. Design and synthesis of lipids for the fabrication of functional lipidic cubic-phase biomaterials. The Journal of organic chemistry. 2012 Dec 7;77(23):10583-95