Chemistry Letters, Vol.30, No.8, 746-747, 2001
A hexagonally organized elemental supramolecular structure of a sugar-appended organogelator observed by synchrotron X-ray source (SPring-8)
Small angle X-ray scattering from methyl 4,6-O-benzylidene-alpha -D-mannopyranoside/p-xylene organogels was carried out with a synchrotron X-ray source at SPring-8, which revealed that the molecules assemble in a hexagonally packed motif in the gel state and this supramolecular structure completely disappears in the sol state.