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Bis(S) leucine (1) and bis-(R)-alpha-phenylglycine (2) oxalyl amides a
re discovered to he efficient small organic gelling agents capable of
gelating water while their stereoisomers meso-1 and meso-2 as well as
their racemates are found tb be non-gelling and poorly gelling respect
ivelyf IR, fluorescence emission spectroscopy and TEM are used to stud
y assemblies of (S,S)-1 and (R,R)-2 in gels.