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- The assembly of small molecules into larger structures relies on noncovalent interactions and has various practical applications, including fluorescence assays and gas storage.
- Researchers used nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study how a small-molecule probe (fluorophenol) interacts with sunset yellow across different concentrations.
- The findings revealed that adding fluorophenol does not significantly change the aggregation behavior of sunset yellow.
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The assembly of small molecules into larger structures, often driven by noncovalent interactions such as hydrogen bonding, aromatic stacking interactions, and burial of hydrophobic surface, is of widespread interest. The interaction of small molecules with aggregates also has a large range of applications from fluorescence aggregation assays to gas storage in framework materials. Here, we utilize nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to investigate the interaction of a small-molecule probe on the assembly state of sunset yellow across a wide range of relative concentrations. Information from both macroscopic (diffusion) and microscopic (chemical shifts) measurements allows the interaction to be studied and the binding mode to be interrogated. Using fluorophenol as the small-molecule probe, we show that the aggregation behavior of sunset yellow is broadly unaffected by the relative amount of fluorophenol added.
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