List of works - Alessandro Casnati

2,9-Dicarbonyl-1,10-phenanthroline derivatives with an unprecedented Am(III)/Eu(III) selectivity under highly acidic conditions.

scientific article published on 4 October 2013

A calix[4]arene with acylguanidine units as an efficient catalyst for phosphodiester bond cleavage in RNA and DNA model compounds

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

A synthetic divalent cholera toxin glycocalix[4]arene ligand having higher affinity than natural GM1 oligosaccharide.

scientific article

ATP cleavage by cone tetraguanidinocalix[4]arene

scientific article published on 22 October 2012

Amphiphilic Guanidinocalixarenes Inhibit Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)- and Lectin-Stimulated Toll-like Receptor 4 (TLR4) Signaling

scientific article

Arginine clustering on calix[4]arene macrocycles for improved cell penetration and DNA delivery

scientific article published on January 2013

Assembly of a supramolecular capsule on a molecular printboard.

scientific article published in December 2004

Assessing the mechanism of the synergistic action of calixarenes and Co-dicarbollides in lanthanide extractions

Building multivalent iminosugar-based ligands on calixarene cores via nitrone cycloadditions

scientific article published on 31 July 2012

CO2 capture by multivalent amino-functionalized calix[4]arenes: self-assembly, absorption, and QCM detection studies

scientific article published on 29 April 2011

Calix[4]arene-based Zn2+ complexes as shape- and size-selective catalysts of ester cleavage

scientific article published in July 2005

Calix[n]arene-based glycoclusters: bioactivity of thiourea-linked galactose/lactose moieties as inhibitors of binding of medically relevant lectins to a glycoprotein and cell-surface glycoconjugates and selectivity among human adhesion/growth-regula

scientific article

Calixarenes Incorporating Sulfonamide Moieties: Versatile Ligands for Carbonic Anhydrases Inhibition

scientific article published in 2021

Calixarenes and cations: a time-lapse photography of the big-bang

scientific article published on 24 June 2013

Catalysis of diribonucleoside monophosphate cleavage by water soluble copper(II) complexes of calix[4]arene based nitrogen ligands

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

Charge assisted hydrophobic binding of ethanol into the cavity of calix[4]arene receptors in aqueous solution

Chiral dimeric capsules from N,C-linked peptidocalix[4]arenes self-assembled through an antiparallel beta-sheetlike motif

scientific article

Clicked and long spaced galactosyl- and lactosylcalix[4]arenes: new multivalent galectin-3 ligands

scientific article published on 23 July 2014

Complete tetraglycosylation of a calix[4]arene by a chemo-enzymatic approach

scientific article published on 23 November 2017

Complexation of a peptidocalix[4]arene, a vancomycin mimic, with alanine-containing guests by NMR diffusion measurements

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

Correction: Moulding calixarenes for biomacromolecule targeting

scientific article

Cyclodextrin- and calixarene-based polycationic amphiphiles as gene delivery systems: a structure-activity relationship study

scientific article

DNA condensation and cell transfection properties of guanidinium calixarenes: dependence on macrocycle lipophilicity, size, and conformation.

scientific article published in November 2006

Di- and trinuclear Zn2+ complexes of calix[4]arene based ligands as catalysts of acyl and phosphoryl transfer reactions

scientific article published in January 2005

Dinuclear barium(II) complexes based on a calix[4]arene scaffold as catalysts of acyl transfer.

scientific article published in September 2004

Divalent binding of a bis(adamantyl)-functionalized calix[4]arene to beta-cyclodextrin-based hosts: an experimental and theoretical study on multivalent binding in solution and at self-assembled monolayers

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

Docetaxel-Loaded Nanoparticles Assembled from β-Cyclodextrin/Calixarene Giant Surfactants: Physicochemical Properties and Cytotoxic Effect in Prostate Cancer and Glioblastoma Cells

scientific article published on 8 May 2017

Efficient and selective cleavage of RNA oligonucleotides by calix[4]arene-based synthetic metallonucleases.

scientific article

Efficient cell penetration and delivery of peptide nucleic acids by an argininocalix[4]arene

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Glucosylthioureidocalix[4]arenes: Synthesis, conformations and gas phase recognition of amino acids

scientific article published on 15 December 2009

Glycoligand-targeted core-shell nanospheres with tunable drug release profiles from calixarene-cyclodextrin heterodimers.

scientific article published in July 2014

Gold nanoparticles decorated by clustered multivalent cone-glycocalixarenes actively improve the targeting efficiency toward cancer cells

scientific article published on 06 August 2014

Highly efficient intramolecular Cannizzaro reaction between 1,3-distal formyl groups at the upper rim of a cone-calix[4]arene

scientific article published on 22 May 2012

Hydrophilic Clicked 2,6-Bis-triazolyl-pyridines Endowed with High Actinide Selectivity and Radiochemical Stability: Toward a Closed Nuclear Fuel Cycle

scientific article published on 20 May 2016

Incorporation of a calixarene-based glucose functionalised bolaamphiphile into lipid bilayers for multivalent lectin recognition

scientific article published in August 2013

Inherently chiral cone-calix[4]arenes via a subsequent upper rim ring-closing/opening methodology

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Large glucosylthioureidocalixarenes: selective hosts for mono- and bisphosphonates

scientific article

Low-generation dendrimers with a calixarene core and based on a chiral C(2)-symmetric pyrrolidine as iminosugar mimics.

scientific article published on 26 June 2012

Lower rim guanidinocalix[4]arenes: macrocyclic nonviral vectors for cell transfection.

scientific article published on 16 April 2012

Mannosylcalix[n]arenes as multivalent ligands for DC-SIGN.

scientific article published on 31 October 2017

Molecular Architecture and Symmetry Properties of 1,3-Alternate Calix[4]arenes with Orientable Groups at the Para Position of the Phenolic Rings

scientific article

Molecular acrobatics: self-assembly of calixarene-porphyrin cages

scientific article published in November 2003

Molecular and Supramolecular Homochirality: Enantiopure Perfluorocarbon Rotamers and Halogen-Bonded Fluorous Double Helices

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Moulding calixarenes for biomacromolecule targeting

scientific article published on 19 August 2015

Multivalent glycocalixarenes for recognition of biological macromolecules: glycocalyx mimics capable of multitasking.

scientific article published on 29 January 2013

Multivalent glycoconjugates as anti-pathogenic agents ⬇️

scientific article

N-linked peptidocalix[4]arene bisureas as enantioselective receptors for amino acid derivatives

scientific article published on 27 March 2007

New efficient calixarene amide ionophores for the selective removal of strontium ion from nuclear waste: synthesis, complexation, and extraction properties

scientific article published in December 2001

Noncovalent complexation of glucosylthioureidocalix[4]arenes with carboxylates and their gas-phase characteristics: an ESI-FTICR mass spectrometric study

scientific article published on 01 August 2011

Noncovalent complexation of monoamine neurotransmitters and related ammonium ions by tetramethoxy tetraglucosylcalix[4]arene.

scientific article published in December 2011

Novel cinchona carbamate selectors with complementary enantioseparation characteristics for N-acylated amino acids

scientific article published in January 2003

Nuclear waste treatment by means of supported liquid membranes containing calixcrown compounds

One-shot preparation of an inherently chiral trifunctional calix[4]arene from an easily available cone-triformylcalix[4]arene

scientific article published in June 2013

Peptido- and glycocalixarenes: playing with hydrogen bonds around hydrophobic cavities.

scientific article

Phosphoryl Transfer Processes Promoted by a Trifunctional Calix[4]arene Inspired by DNA Topoisomerase I.

scientific article

Probing the determinants of porosity in protein frameworks: co-crystals of cytochrome c and an octa-anionic calix[4]arene

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Recognition of cationic species with synthetic receptors ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 1997

Ribonuclease Activity of an Artificial Catalyst That Combines a Ligated Cu(II) Ion and a Guanidinium Group at the Upper Rim of a cone-Calix[4]arene Platform

scientific article

Scanning force microscopy of upright-standing, isolated calixarene-porphyrin heterodimers

scientific article

Selective Extraction of Cesium at Tracer Level Concentration from a Sodium Nitrate Solution with Calix-Crowns. Molecular Modeling Study of the Cs+/Na+Selectivity

Synthesis, Complexation and Photophysics in Protic Solvents of Lanthanide Complexes of Novel Calix[4]arene Polycarboxylic-2,2′-bipyridine Mixed Ligands

The role of building-block metrics in the halogen-bonding-driven self-assembly of calixarenes, inorganic salts and diiodoperfluoroalkanes.

scientific article published in August 2009

Thiourea-linked upper rim calix[4]arene neoglycoconjugates: synthesis, conformations and binding properties

scientific article published in May 2003

Time-Resolved Laser Fluorescence Spectroscopy Study of the Coordination Chemistry of a Hydrophilic CHON [1,2,3-Triazol-4-yl]pyridine Ligand with Cm(III) and Eu(III).

scientific article

Upper Rim Bifunctional cone-Calix[4]arenes Based on a Ligated Metal Ion and a Guanidinium Unit as DNAase and RNAase Mimics

scientific article

Upper rim guanidinocalix[4]arenes as artificial phosphodiesterases

scientific article published on 15 March 2012

Upper-rim acidic peptidocalixarenes as crystal growth modifiers

Writing patterns of molecules on molecular printboards

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

List of works by Alessandro Casnati

2,9-Dicarbonyl-1,10-phenanthroline derivatives with an unprecedented Am(III)/Eu(III) selectivity under highly acidic conditions.

A calix[4]arene with acylguanidine units as an efficient catalyst for phosphodiester bond cleavage in RNA and DNA model compounds

A synthetic divalent cholera toxin glycocalix[4]arene ligand having higher affinity than natural GM1 oligosaccharide.

ATP cleavage by cone tetraguanidinocalix[4]arene

Amphiphilic Guanidinocalixarenes Inhibit Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)- and Lectin-Stimulated Toll-like Receptor 4 (TLR4) Signaling

Arginine clustering on calix[4]arene macrocycles for improved cell penetration and DNA delivery

Assembly of a supramolecular capsule on a molecular printboard.

Assessing the mechanism of the synergistic action of calixarenes and Co-dicarbollides in lanthanide extractions

Building multivalent iminosugar-based ligands on calixarene cores via nitrone cycloadditions

CO2 capture by multivalent amino-functionalized calix[4]arenes: self-assembly, absorption, and QCM detection studies

Calix[4]arene-based Zn2+ complexes as shape- and size-selective catalysts of ester cleavage

Calix[n]arene-based glycoclusters: bioactivity of thiourea-linked galactose/lactose moieties as inhibitors of binding of medically relevant lectins to a glycoprotein and cell-surface glycoconjugates and selectivity among human adhesion/growth-regula

Calixarenes Incorporating Sulfonamide Moieties: Versatile Ligands for Carbonic Anhydrases Inhibition

Calixarenes and cations: a time-lapse photography of the big-bang

Catalysis of diribonucleoside monophosphate cleavage by water soluble copper(II) complexes of calix[4]arene based nitrogen ligands

Charge assisted hydrophobic binding of ethanol into the cavity of calix[4]arene receptors in aqueous solution

Chiral dimeric capsules from N,C-linked peptidocalix[4]arenes self-assembled through an antiparallel beta-sheetlike motif

Clicked and long spaced galactosyl- and lactosylcalix[4]arenes: new multivalent galectin-3 ligands

Complete tetraglycosylation of a calix[4]arene by a chemo-enzymatic approach

Complexation of a peptidocalix[4]arene, a vancomycin mimic, with alanine-containing guests by NMR diffusion measurements

Correction: Moulding calixarenes for biomacromolecule targeting

Cyclodextrin- and calixarene-based polycationic amphiphiles as gene delivery systems: a structure-activity relationship study

DNA condensation and cell transfection properties of guanidinium calixarenes: dependence on macrocycle lipophilicity, size, and conformation.

Di- and trinuclear Zn2+ complexes of calix[4]arene based ligands as catalysts of acyl and phosphoryl transfer reactions

Dinuclear barium(II) complexes based on a calix[4]arene scaffold as catalysts of acyl transfer.

Divalent binding of a bis(adamantyl)-functionalized calix[4]arene to beta-cyclodextrin-based hosts: an experimental and theoretical study on multivalent binding in solution and at self-assembled monolayers

Docetaxel-Loaded Nanoparticles Assembled from β-Cyclodextrin/Calixarene Giant Surfactants: Physicochemical Properties and Cytotoxic Effect in Prostate Cancer and Glioblastoma Cells

Efficient and selective cleavage of RNA oligonucleotides by calix[4]arene-based synthetic metallonucleases.

Efficient cell penetration and delivery of peptide nucleic acids by an argininocalix[4]arene

Glucosylthioureidocalix[4]arenes: Synthesis, conformations and gas phase recognition of amino acids

Glycoligand-targeted core-shell nanospheres with tunable drug release profiles from calixarene-cyclodextrin heterodimers.

Gold nanoparticles decorated by clustered multivalent cone-glycocalixarenes actively improve the targeting efficiency toward cancer cells

Highly efficient intramolecular Cannizzaro reaction between 1,3-distal formyl groups at the upper rim of a cone-calix[4]arene

Hydrophilic Clicked 2,6-Bis-triazolyl-pyridines Endowed with High Actinide Selectivity and Radiochemical Stability: Toward a Closed Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Incorporation of a calixarene-based glucose functionalised bolaamphiphile into lipid bilayers for multivalent lectin recognition

Inherently chiral cone-calix[4]arenes via a subsequent upper rim ring-closing/opening methodology

Large glucosylthioureidocalixarenes: selective hosts for mono- and bisphosphonates

Low-generation dendrimers with a calixarene core and based on a chiral C(2)-symmetric pyrrolidine as iminosugar mimics.

Lower rim guanidinocalix[4]arenes: macrocyclic nonviral vectors for cell transfection.

Mannosylcalix[n]arenes as multivalent ligands for DC-SIGN.

Molecular Architecture and Symmetry Properties of 1,3-Alternate Calix[4]arenes with Orientable Groups at the Para Position of the Phenolic Rings

Molecular acrobatics: self-assembly of calixarene-porphyrin cages

Molecular and Supramolecular Homochirality: Enantiopure Perfluorocarbon Rotamers and Halogen-Bonded Fluorous Double Helices

Moulding calixarenes for biomacromolecule targeting

Multivalent glycocalixarenes for recognition of biological macromolecules: glycocalyx mimics capable of multitasking.

Multivalent glycoconjugates as anti-pathogenic agents ⬇️

N-linked peptidocalix[4]arene bisureas as enantioselective receptors for amino acid derivatives

New efficient calixarene amide ionophores for the selective removal of strontium ion from nuclear waste: synthesis, complexation, and extraction properties

Noncovalent complexation of glucosylthioureidocalix[4]arenes with carboxylates and their gas-phase characteristics: an ESI-FTICR mass spectrometric study

Noncovalent complexation of monoamine neurotransmitters and related ammonium ions by tetramethoxy tetraglucosylcalix[4]arene.

Novel cinchona carbamate selectors with complementary enantioseparation characteristics for N-acylated amino acids

Nuclear waste treatment by means of supported liquid membranes containing calixcrown compounds

One-shot preparation of an inherently chiral trifunctional calix[4]arene from an easily available cone-triformylcalix[4]arene

Peptido- and glycocalixarenes: playing with hydrogen bonds around hydrophobic cavities.

Phosphoryl Transfer Processes Promoted by a Trifunctional Calix[4]arene Inspired by DNA Topoisomerase I.

Probing the determinants of porosity in protein frameworks: co-crystals of cytochrome c and an octa-anionic calix[4]arene

Recognition of cationic species with synthetic receptors ⬇️

Ribonuclease Activity of an Artificial Catalyst That Combines a Ligated Cu(II) Ion and a Guanidinium Group at the Upper Rim of a cone-Calix[4]arene Platform

Scanning force microscopy of upright-standing, isolated calixarene-porphyrin heterodimers

Selective Extraction of Cesium at Tracer Level Concentration from a Sodium Nitrate Solution with Calix-Crowns. Molecular Modeling Study of the Cs+/Na+Selectivity

Synthesis, Complexation and Photophysics in Protic Solvents of Lanthanide Complexes of Novel Calix[4]arene Polycarboxylic-2,2′-bipyridine Mixed Ligands

The role of building-block metrics in the halogen-bonding-driven self-assembly of calixarenes, inorganic salts and diiodoperfluoroalkanes.

Thiourea-linked upper rim calix[4]arene neoglycoconjugates: synthesis, conformations and binding properties

Time-Resolved Laser Fluorescence Spectroscopy Study of the Coordination Chemistry of a Hydrophilic CHON [1,2,3-Triazol-4-yl]pyridine Ligand with Cm(III) and Eu(III).

Upper Rim Bifunctional cone-Calix[4]arenes Based on a Ligated Metal Ion and a Guanidinium Unit as DNAase and RNAase Mimics

Upper rim guanidinocalix[4]arenes as artificial phosphodiesterases

Upper-rim acidic peptidocalixarenes as crystal growth modifiers

Writing patterns of molecules on molecular printboards