List of works - Alessandro Moretto

(alphaMe)Nva: stereoselective syntheses and preferred conformations of selected model peptides

article

A new tool for photoaffinity labeling studies: a partially constrained, benzophenone based, alpha-amino acid.

scientific article published on 26 May 2010

A peptide topological template for the dispersion of [60]fullerene in water

scientific article

A rigid helical peptide axle for a [2]rotaxane molecular machine.

scientific article published in January 2009

A terminally protected dipeptide: from crystal structure and self-assembly, through co-assembly with carbon-based materials, to a ternary catalyst for reduction chemistry in water

scientific article published on 14 October 2015

A topographically and conformationally constrained, spin-labeled, alpha-amino acid: crystallographic characterization in peptides*

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

Ac10c: a medium-ring, cycloaliphatic Calpha,alpha-disubstituted glycine. Incorporation into model peptides and preferred conformation

scientific article published in April 2001

Anomalous distance dependence of electron transfer across peptide bridges

scientific article

Bis(azobenzene)-Based Photoswitchable, Prochiral, Cα-Tetrasubstituted α-Amino Acids for Nanomaterials Applications

scientific article published on 28 September 2011

Boosting carbon quantum dots/fullerene electron transfer via surface group engineering.

scientific article published on 8 November 2016

Bulky toroidal and vesicular self-assembled nanostructures from fullerene end-capped rod-like polymers

scientific article published on 01 May 2014

C(alpha)-tetrasubstituted amino acid based peptides in asymmetric catalysis.

scientific article published in January 2006

Charge mapping in 3(10)-helical peptide chains by oxidation of the terminal ferrocenyl group

scientific article published on 22 February 2011

Chiral Gold Nanoparticles Decorated with Pseudopeptides

Chiral, fully extended helical peptides

scientific article published on 04 February 2011

Conformation and EPR characterization of rigid, 310-helical peptides with TOAC spin labels: Models for short distances

scientific article published on 01 May 2014

Crystal-state 3D-structural characterization of novel 310-helical peptides

scientific article published on 01 October 2003

Crystal-state 3D-structural characterization of novel, Aib-based, turn and helical peptides

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Cα-Methyl proline: A unique example of split personality

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Different spectral signatures of octapeptide 3(10)- and alpha-helices revealed by two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Dynamical transition in a small helical peptide and its implication for vibrational energy transport

scientific article published in October 2009

Effect on the Conformation of a Terminally Blocked, (E) β,γ-Unsaturated δ-Amino Acid Residue Induced by Carbon Methylation

scientific article published on 11 December 2019

En route towards the peptide γ-helix: X-ray diffraction analyses and conformational energy calculations of Adm-rich short peptides.

scientific article published on 22 December 2016

Energy transport in peptide helices

scientific article

Energy transport in peptide helices: a comparison between high- and low-energy excitations

scientific article published on 3 July 2008

Enhancement of the helical content and stability induced in a linear oligopeptide by an i, i+4 intramolecularly double stapled, overlapping, bicyclic [31, 22, 5]-(E)ene motif

scientific article published on 01 January 2014

Facile and E-selective intramolecular ring-closing metathesis reactions in 3(10)-helical peptides: a 3D structural study.

scientific article published on 11 May 2007

First homo-peptides undergoing a reversible 3(10)-helix/alpha-helix transition: critical main-chain length.

scientific article published in January 2008

Handedness preference and switching of peptide helices. Part I: Helices based on protein amino acids.

scientific article published on 23 April 2014

Handedness preference and switching of peptide helices. Part II: Helices based on noncoded α-amino acids

scientific article

Helical Foldamers Incorporating Photoswitchable Residues for Light-Mediated Modulation of Conformational Preference

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

Improved synthesis of glycine, taurine and sulfate conjugated bile acids as reference compounds and internal standards for ESI-MS/MS urinary profiling of inborn errors of bile acid synthesis.

scientific article published on 11 March 2017

In silico interpretation of cw-ESR at 9 and 95 GHz of mono- and bis- TOAC-labeled Aib-homopeptides in fluid and frozen acetonitrile

scientific article published on 14 October 2011

Insights into the free-energy dependence of intramolecular dissociative electron transfers

scientific article published in September 2002

Integrated Computational Approach to the Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Characterization of Rigid 310-Helical Peptides with TOAC Nitroxide Spin Labels.

scientific article published on 19 April 2017

Intramolecular, intermolecular, and heterogeneous nonadiabatic dissociative electron transfer to peresters

scientific article published in October 2001

Intrinsically Photoswitchable α/β Peptides toward Two-State Foldamers

scientific article published on 15 July 2018

Is the backbone conformation of C(alpha)-methyl proline restricted to a single region?

scientific article

Lipopeptaibol Metabolites of Tolypocladium geodes: Total Synthesis, Preferred Conformation, and Membrane Activity

scientific article published on 01 August 2003

Metal-Free on-Surface Photochemical Homocoupling of Terminal Alkynes.

scientific article

Meteoritic C alpha-methylated alpha-amino acids and the homochirality of life: searching for a link

scientific article published in December 2004

Multiple, consecutive, fully-extended 2.0₅-helix peptide conformation

scientific article published in November 2013

N-methylation of N(alpha)-acylated, fully C(alpha)-methylated, linear, folded peptides: synthetic and conformational aspects.

scientific article published in January 2006

New bis-ferrocenyl end-capped peptides: synthesis and charge transfer properties.

scientific article

Oligopeptide Helical Conformations Control Gold Nanoparticle Cross-Linking

scientific article published on 13 August 2019

On the orange color of Z-Trp-ONPo.

scientific article

Peptide helices based on alpha-amino acids.

scientific article

Peptide α/310-Helix Dimorphism in the Crystal State

scientific article published in 2007

Peptide-based rotaxanes and catenanes: an emerging class of supramolecular chemistry systems

scientific article published on April 2012

Photocontrolled self-assembly of a bis-azobenzene-containing α-amino acid.

scientific article published on 21 October 2013

Photoinduced intramolecular covalent bond formation in structurally rigid -Bpa-(spacer)-Met hexapeptides

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Photoinduced intramolecular macrocyclization reaction between a Bpa and a Met residue in a helical peptide: 3D structures of the diastereomeric products

scientific article published in January 2009

Replacement of Ala by Aib improves structuration and biological stability in thymine-based alpha-nucleopeptides.

scientific article

Reversible chirality control in peptide-functionalized gold nanoparticles.

scientific article

Slowtert-butyl ester acidolysis and peptide 310-helix to α-helix transition in HFIP solution

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Spectroscopic Characterization of the Fully-Extended, Planar, Peptide 2.05-Helix Based on Chiral, Cα -Ethylated, α-Amino Acids

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Spectroscopic Insights into Carbon Dot Systems.

scientific article

Stereoselective acylation of a racemic amine with C(alpha)-methyl phenylglycine-based dipeptide 5(4H)-oxazolones.

scientific article

Structural flexibility of a helical peptide regulates vibrational energy transport properties

scientific article

Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Oligo(p-phenylenevinylene) Peptide Conjugates in Water

scientific article published on 07 January 2011

Synthesis and photochemical applications of processable polymers enclosing photoluminescent carbon quantum dots.

scientific article published on 24 March 2015

Synthesis of luminescent 3D microstructures formed by carbon quantum dots and their self-assembly properties

scientific article published on 01 June 2014

Templating the self-assembly of pristine carbon nanostructures in water

scientific article published on 18 March 2014

The 2.0₅-helix in hetero-oligopeptides entirely composed of C(α,α)-disubstituted glycines with both side chains longer than methyls.

scientific article published in March 2014

The critical main-chain length for helix formation in water: determined in a peptide series with alternating Aib and Ala residues exclusively and detected with ECD spectroscopy

scientific article published on 01 October 2011

Toward detecting the formation of a single helical turn by 2D IR cross peaks between the amide-I and -II modes.

scientific article published in August 2009

Tunable E- Z Photoisomerization in α,β-Peptide Foldamers Featuring Multiple ( E/ Z)-3-Aminoprop-2-enoic Acid Units

scientific article published on 15 May 2019

Tuning morphological architectures generated through living supramolecular assembly of a helical foldamer end-capped with two complementary nucleobases

scientific article published on 16 May 2017

Tuning the free-energy landscape of a WW domain by temperature, mutation, and truncation

scientific article

Turn and helical peptide spacers: combined distance and angular dependencies in the exciton-coupled circular dichroism of intramolecularly interacting bis-porphyrins

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

Turn stabilization in short peptides by C?-methylated ?-amino acids

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Vibrational Energy Transport through a Capping Layer of Appropriately Designed Peptide Helices over Gold Nanoparticles

scientific article published on 01 August 2010

Vibrational energy transport in peptide helices after excitation of C-D modes in Leu-d10.

scientific article published in October 2009

Water-soluble peptide-coated nanoparticles: control of the helix structure and enhanced differential binding to immune cells

scientific article published on 10 December 2010

List of works by Alessandro Moretto

(alphaMe)Nva: stereoselective syntheses and preferred conformations of selected model peptides

A new tool for photoaffinity labeling studies: a partially constrained, benzophenone based, alpha-amino acid.

A peptide topological template for the dispersion of [60]fullerene in water

A rigid helical peptide axle for a [2]rotaxane molecular machine.

A terminally protected dipeptide: from crystal structure and self-assembly, through co-assembly with carbon-based materials, to a ternary catalyst for reduction chemistry in water

A topographically and conformationally constrained, spin-labeled, alpha-amino acid: crystallographic characterization in peptides*

Ac10c: a medium-ring, cycloaliphatic Calpha,alpha-disubstituted glycine. Incorporation into model peptides and preferred conformation

Anomalous distance dependence of electron transfer across peptide bridges

Bis(azobenzene)-Based Photoswitchable, Prochiral, Cα-Tetrasubstituted α-Amino Acids for Nanomaterials Applications

Boosting carbon quantum dots/fullerene electron transfer via surface group engineering.

Bulky toroidal and vesicular self-assembled nanostructures from fullerene end-capped rod-like polymers

C(alpha)-tetrasubstituted amino acid based peptides in asymmetric catalysis.

Charge mapping in 3(10)-helical peptide chains by oxidation of the terminal ferrocenyl group

Chiral Gold Nanoparticles Decorated with Pseudopeptides

Chiral, fully extended helical peptides

Conformation and EPR characterization of rigid, 310-helical peptides with TOAC spin labels: Models for short distances

Crystal-state 3D-structural characterization of novel 310-helical peptides

Crystal-state 3D-structural characterization of novel, Aib-based, turn and helical peptides

Cα-Methyl proline: A unique example of split personality

Different spectral signatures of octapeptide 3(10)- and alpha-helices revealed by two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy

Dynamical transition in a small helical peptide and its implication for vibrational energy transport

Effect on the Conformation of a Terminally Blocked, (E) β,γ-Unsaturated δ-Amino Acid Residue Induced by Carbon Methylation

En route towards the peptide γ-helix: X-ray diffraction analyses and conformational energy calculations of Adm-rich short peptides.

Energy transport in peptide helices

Energy transport in peptide helices: a comparison between high- and low-energy excitations

Enhancement of the helical content and stability induced in a linear oligopeptide by an i, i+4 intramolecularly double stapled, overlapping, bicyclic [31, 22, 5]-(E)ene motif

Facile and E-selective intramolecular ring-closing metathesis reactions in 3(10)-helical peptides: a 3D structural study.

First homo-peptides undergoing a reversible 3(10)-helix/alpha-helix transition: critical main-chain length.

Handedness preference and switching of peptide helices. Part I: Helices based on protein amino acids.

Handedness preference and switching of peptide helices. Part II: Helices based on noncoded α-amino acids

Helical Foldamers Incorporating Photoswitchable Residues for Light-Mediated Modulation of Conformational Preference

Improved synthesis of glycine, taurine and sulfate conjugated bile acids as reference compounds and internal standards for ESI-MS/MS urinary profiling of inborn errors of bile acid synthesis.

In silico interpretation of cw-ESR at 9 and 95 GHz of mono- and bis- TOAC-labeled Aib-homopeptides in fluid and frozen acetonitrile

Insights into the free-energy dependence of intramolecular dissociative electron transfers

Integrated Computational Approach to the Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Characterization of Rigid 310-Helical Peptides with TOAC Nitroxide Spin Labels.

Intramolecular, intermolecular, and heterogeneous nonadiabatic dissociative electron transfer to peresters

Intrinsically Photoswitchable α/β Peptides toward Two-State Foldamers

Is the backbone conformation of C(alpha)-methyl proline restricted to a single region?

Lipopeptaibol Metabolites of Tolypocladium geodes: Total Synthesis, Preferred Conformation, and Membrane Activity

Metal-Free on-Surface Photochemical Homocoupling of Terminal Alkynes.

Meteoritic C alpha-methylated alpha-amino acids and the homochirality of life: searching for a link

Multiple, consecutive, fully-extended 2.0₅-helix peptide conformation

N-methylation of N(alpha)-acylated, fully C(alpha)-methylated, linear, folded peptides: synthetic and conformational aspects.

New bis-ferrocenyl end-capped peptides: synthesis and charge transfer properties.

Oligopeptide Helical Conformations Control Gold Nanoparticle Cross-Linking

On the orange color of Z-Trp-ONPo.

Peptide helices based on alpha-amino acids.

Peptide α/310-Helix Dimorphism in the Crystal State

Peptide-based rotaxanes and catenanes: an emerging class of supramolecular chemistry systems

Photocontrolled self-assembly of a bis-azobenzene-containing α-amino acid.

Photoinduced intramolecular covalent bond formation in structurally rigid -Bpa-(spacer)-Met hexapeptides

Photoinduced intramolecular macrocyclization reaction between a Bpa and a Met residue in a helical peptide: 3D structures of the diastereomeric products

Replacement of Ala by Aib improves structuration and biological stability in thymine-based alpha-nucleopeptides.

Reversible chirality control in peptide-functionalized gold nanoparticles.

Slowtert-butyl ester acidolysis and peptide 310-helix to α-helix transition in HFIP solution

Spectroscopic Characterization of the Fully-Extended, Planar, Peptide 2.05-Helix Based on Chiral, Cα -Ethylated, α-Amino Acids

Spectroscopic Insights into Carbon Dot Systems.

Stereoselective acylation of a racemic amine with C(alpha)-methyl phenylglycine-based dipeptide 5(4H)-oxazolones.

Structural flexibility of a helical peptide regulates vibrational energy transport properties

Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Oligo(p-phenylenevinylene) Peptide Conjugates in Water

Synthesis and photochemical applications of processable polymers enclosing photoluminescent carbon quantum dots.

Synthesis of luminescent 3D microstructures formed by carbon quantum dots and their self-assembly properties

Templating the self-assembly of pristine carbon nanostructures in water

The 2.0₅-helix in hetero-oligopeptides entirely composed of C(α,α)-disubstituted glycines with both side chains longer than methyls.

The critical main-chain length for helix formation in water: determined in a peptide series with alternating Aib and Ala residues exclusively and detected with ECD spectroscopy

Toward detecting the formation of a single helical turn by 2D IR cross peaks between the amide-I and -II modes.

Tunable E- Z Photoisomerization in α,β-Peptide Foldamers Featuring Multiple ( E/ Z)-3-Aminoprop-2-enoic Acid Units

Tuning morphological architectures generated through living supramolecular assembly of a helical foldamer end-capped with two complementary nucleobases

Tuning the free-energy landscape of a WW domain by temperature, mutation, and truncation

Turn and helical peptide spacers: combined distance and angular dependencies in the exciton-coupled circular dichroism of intramolecularly interacting bis-porphyrins

Turn stabilization in short peptides by C?-methylated ?-amino acids

Vibrational Energy Transport through a Capping Layer of Appropriately Designed Peptide Helices over Gold Nanoparticles

Vibrational energy transport in peptide helices after excitation of C-D modes in Leu-d10.

Water-soluble peptide-coated nanoparticles: control of the helix structure and enhanced differential binding to immune cells