A Note on the Melting Point of α-solanine:The solution to a riddle

Self-organizing behaviour of glycosteroidal bolaphiles: insights into lipidic microsegregation

“…1) is the poisonous material found in green potatoes, and it also exhibits a thermotropic lamellar mesophase. 21 However, only a small amount of work has been devoted to physicochemical and biophysical studies of SGs within a membrane environment, 17 and there have been only a limited number of investigations concerning the precise liquid-crystalline behaviour of SGs. For example, Faivre et al compared the mesomorphic behaviour of cholesteryl-oxyethylene with and without glucose, showing that the addition of the carbohydrate moiety greatly affects the lyotropic behaviour of the material, since hydrogen bonding of the carbohydrate with water changes the hydrophilic/lipophilic balance of the system.…”

The unusual self-organising behaviour of a glycosteroidal bolaphile

“…It was found to exhibit a high melting point and between the solid and the liquid states it was also shown to possess a fluid-like lamellar phase. 1,2 The layered phase was classified as a smectic A* phase, where the molecules have no periodic order, but exhibit a long range out of plane density modulation of their centres of mass. 3 Recently we reported on the melting properties of similar materials with structures based upon the solanine template of a sugar and steroid directly bound together.…”