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Overview

Carsten Schmuck was affiliated with the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Their research primarily focused on the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant emphasis on molecular biology as well as contributions to materials chemistry, organic chemistry, neurology, and spectroscopy.

Their main research topics included advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, RNA interference and gene delivery, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, protein degradation and inhibitors, crystallization and solubility studies, and X-ray diffraction in crystallography.

The scientist published in a variety of venues with frequent contributions to these journals and databases:

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • ChemBioChem
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Nature Communications

Selected recent papers demonstrated the scope and focus of Schmuck's research:

  • Functional Disruption of the Cancer-Relevant Interaction between Survivin and Histone H3 with a Guanidiniocarbonyl Pyrrole Ligand, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Dual pH-Induced Reversible Self-Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles by Surface Functionalization with Zwitterionic Ligands, 2020, Small
  • Smart Glycopolymeric Nanoparticles for Multivalent Lectin Binding and Stimuli-Controlled Guest Release, 2020, Biomacromolecules
  • Structure optimization of lipopeptide assemblies for aldol reactions in an aqueous medium, 2021, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Water-Soluble, pH Responsive Polymeric Nanoparticles: A Modular Approach, 2020, ACS Applied Polymer Materials

The scientist frequently collaborated with several coauthors:

  • Shirley K. Knauer
  • Michael Giese
  • Cecilia Vallet
  • Christoph Hirschhäuser
  • Dennis Aschmann

Best Publications

  • Self-Complementary Quadruple Hydrogen-Bonding Motifs as a Functional Principle: From Dimeric Supramolecules to Supramolecular Polymers.

    Carsten Schmuck;Wolfgang Wienand

  • Molecules with helical structure: how to build a molecular spiral staircase.

    Carsten Schmuck

  • SERS labels for red laser excitation: silica-encapsulated SAMs on tunable gold/silver nanoshells.

    Bernd Küstner;Magdalena Gellner;Max Schütz;Friedrich Schöppler

  • Peptide Self-Assembly Triggered by Metal Ions

    Rongfeng Zou;Qi Wang;Junchen Wu;Jingxian Wu

  • How to improve guanidinium cations for oxoanion binding in aqueous solution?: The design of artificial peptide receptors

    Carsten Schmuck

  • Switchable supramolecular polymers from the self-assembly of a small monomer with two orthogonal binding interactions.

    Gerd Gröger;Wolfgang Meyer-Zaika;Christoph Böttcher;Franziska Gröhn

  • Highly Stable Self-Assembly in Water: Ion Pair Driven Dimerization of a Guanidiniocarbonyl Pyrrole Carboxylate Zwitterion

    Carsten Schmuck;Wolfgang Wienand

  • Carboxylate Binding by 2-(Guanidiniocarbonyl)pyrrole Receptors in Aqueous Solvents: Improving the Binding Properties of Guanidinium Cations through Additional Hydrogen Bonds

    Carsten Schmuck

  • A molecular flytrap for the selective binding of citrate and other tricarboxylates in water.

    Carsten Schmuck;Michael Schwegmann

  • The synthesis of highly functionalized pyrroles : A challenge in regioselectivity and chemical reactivity

    Carsten Schmuck;Daniel Rupprecht

  • Ion-pair induced self-assembly in aqueous solvents

    Thomas H Rehm;Carsten Schmuck

  • Peptide Functionalized Polydiacetylene Liposomes Act as a Fluorescent Turn-On Sensor for Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide

    Junchen Wu;Adam Zawistowski;Michael Ehrmann;Tao Yi

  • A molecular peptide beacon for the ratiometric sensing of nucleic acids.

    Junchen Wu;Ying Zou;Chunyan Li;Wilhelm Sicking

  • Dipeptide binding in water by a de novo designed guanidiniocarbonylpyrrole receptor.

    Carsten Schmuck;Lars Geiger

  • Metal-free double helices from abiotic backbones

    Debasish Haldar;Carsten Schmuck

  • Guest encapsulation within self-assembled molecular containers.

    Carsten Schmuck

  • How to achieve self-assembly in polar solvents based on specific interactions? Some general guidelines.

    Thomas Rehm;Carsten Schmuck

  • Advances in switchable supramolecular nanoassemblies.

    Tassilo Fenske;Hans-Gert Korth;Andreas Mohr;Carsten Schmuck

  • Side chain selective binding of N-acetyl-α-amino acid carboxylates by a 2-(guanidiniocarbonyl)pyrrole receptor in aqueous solvents

    Carsten Schmuck

  • Enantiomerically Pure [M6L12] or [M12L24] Polyhedra from Flexible Bis(Pyridine) Ligands

    Christoph Gütz;Rainer Hovorka;Christoph Klein;Qian-Qian Jiang

  • Moleküle mit helicaler Struktur: Wie baut man molekulare Wendeltreppen?

    Carsten Schmuck

Frequent Co-Authors

Sebastian Schlücker
Sebastian Schlücker University of Duisburg-Essen
Tanja Schirmeister
Tanja Schirmeister Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Philip J. Rosenthal
Philip J. Rosenthal University of California, San Francisco
Bernd Engels
Bernd Engels University of Würzburg
Wolfgang Kiefer
Wolfgang Kiefer University of Würzburg
Thomas Schrader
Thomas Schrader University of Duisburg-Essen
Jiri Gut
Jiri Gut University of California, San Francisco
Caroline Kisker
Caroline Kisker University of Würzburg
Matthias Leippe
Matthias Leippe Kiel University
Christoph Klein
Christoph Klein University of Freiburg

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