Isothermal titration calorimetry of molecularly imprinted polymer nanospheres

Ultrasensitive, isothermal titration calorimetry was used to generate thermodynamic data to assess the binding properties of molecularly imprinted polymer microgels. Microgels were imprinted using L-boc-phenylalanine anilide (L-BFA) and then utilized in binding experiments with a variety of probe molecules, structurally closely related to the template molecule. Significant differences were observed between the binding enthalpy of the original template L-BFA and those of D-BFA, L-boc-phenylalanine, L-boc-tryptophane, and L-boc-tyrosine.