Image of the Week - 17 September 2002

An Imprinted Dendrimer Binding a Porphryin

The primary preparation steps of an imprinted dendrimer, and an imprinted dendrimer binding a porphryin. Building block representations were obtained by converting 2D structures and MM/MD modeling of the imprinted dendrimer was done using Cerius^2. Molecular models were imported into Maya for further modification and rendering using mol2mel. The final composite image was prepared in Photoshop.

Image Courtesy: Data by Ilya Zharov and Steven C. Zimmerman. Image produced by Benjamin Grosser and Zharov.

Contact: zharov@uiuc.edu, sczimmer@uiuc.edu, grosser@uiuc.edu