Biomedical Applications of Calixarenes: State of the Art and Perspectives

• Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition Vol. 60; no. 6; pp. 2768 - 2794
• Main Authors: Pan, Yu‐Chen, Hu, Xin‐Yue, Guo, Dong‐Sheng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 08.02.2021
• Edition: International ed. in English
• Subjects: Anti-Infective Agents - chemistry; Anti-Infective Agents - pharmacology; Bacteria - drug effects; Biomarkers - analysis; biomedical applications; Biomedical materials; Biosensing Techniques - methods; Biosensors; Calixarenes; Calixarenes - chemistry; Calixarenes - pharmacology; Chemical compounds; Derivatives; Diagnosis; diagnostics; Drug Carriers - chemistry; Fabrication; Gene transfer; Gene Transfer Techniques; Humans; Medical imaging; Nanoparticles - chemistry; Optical Imaging - methods; Pharmacology; Recognition; supramolecular chemistry; therapy; calixarenes; diagnostics; supramolecular chemistry; biomedical applications; therapy

Calixarenes (CAs), representing the third generation of supramolecular hosts and one of the most widely studied macrocyclic scaffolds, offer (almost) unlimited structure and application possibilities due to their ease of modification, which allows one to establish a large molecular library as a mate...