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The remarkable structural and chemical properties of adamantane afford attractive opportunities to design various adamantane-based scaffolds for biomedical applications. A wide range of mono-functionalized adamantane compounds have already been investigated and reviewed, mostly as anti-viral agents. The four bridgehead positions of adamantane provide many possibilities to design poly-functional derivatives, and the recent conception of adamantane building blocks with multiple substituents has shown promising applications in several domains. In this review, we provide a detailed description of the different ways to synthesize multifunctional derivatives starting from adamantane molecule as the main core. We will then describe the interesting biological activity of the diverse multivalent scaffolds, focusing in particular on peptide-based systems. The results reported here will certainly encourage the development of novel adamantane-based structures for biological purposes. Copyright © 2015 European Peptide Society and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The peptide-driven formation of charge transfer (CT) supramolecular gels featuring both directional hydrogen-bonding and donor-acceptor (D-A) complexation is reported. Our design consists of the coassembly of two dipeptide-chromophore conjugates, namely diphenylalanine (FF) dipeptide conveniently functionalized at the N-terminus with either a pyrene (Py-1, donor) or naphthalene diimide (NDI-1, acceptor). UV/Vis spectroscopy confirmed the formation of CT complexes. FTIR and 1 H NMR spectroscopy studies underlined the pivotal role of hydrogen bonding in the gelation process, and electronic paramagnetic resonance (EPR) measurements unraveled the advantage of preorganized CT supramolecular architectures for charge transport over solutions containing non-coassembled D and A molecular systems., (© 2018 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.)