Patent ID: 8378138

Claim:
A self-assembling compound for the formation of ion channels in lipid bilayers or cell membranes having formula (I): or a salt or stereoisomer thereof, wherein X is an unsubstituted or substituted hydrocarbyl or heterocyclyl; n is an integer from 1 to 6; Y is a monovalent, divalent, trivalent, tetravalent, pentavalent or hexavalent linking group formed by removing one, two, three, four, five and six hydrogen atoms respectively from an unsubstituted or substituted hydrocarbon, carbocycle or heterocycle; and H DA is a divalent group having formula (II): wherein each of Z 1 and Z 2 is independently O, S or NR 1 ; each of B 1 , and B 3 is independently a bond, O, S, NR 2 or a substituted or unsubstituted C 1-10 alkylene; each of A, D and B 2 is independently O, S, NR 2 or a substituted or unsubstituted C 1-10 alkylene; k is an integer from 1 to 20, where each of R 1 and R 2 is independently H, acyl, hydrocarbyl, carbocyclyl or heterocyclyl and at least one of B 1 and B 2 is NH.