柔軟なペプチドを骨格にもつ金属錯体を用いた複合体の設計と合成

抄録

Biological systems demonstrate sophisticated functions such as accurate recognition, efficient transfer/storage, and catalysis via fine control of multi-component systems using flexible skeletons such as peptides. Thus, the construction and control of multi-component systems using flexible units is a promising approach to mimic sophisticated functions in artificial systems. Peptides are also useful framework for developing such artificial systems because they have suitable flexibilities and enable design of ordered structures through molecular interactions between the functional groups in their main and side chains. However, due to the difficulty on constructing stable structures with peptides, limited studies have been reported for solid materials, especially crystalline materials, using short peptides. To overcome this issue, we have been developing basic motives for artificial multi-component systems in crystals using metal complexes of short, flexible peptides. This review describes our recent advances in the construction of multi-component systems.