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The results revealed that this derivative could form supramolecular gel in halogenated benzene and also gelate chloroform in the presence of toluene or p-xylene. By Fourier-transform infrared spectra (FT-IR) and variable temperature proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR), it was proved that intermolecular hydrogen bonding and \u03c0\u2013\u03c0 stacking interaction were the primary driving forces for the aggregation to form organogel.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ma12040614","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,2,19]],"date-time":"2019-02-19T04:08:20Z","timestamp":1550549300000},"page":"614","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["The Supramolecular Organogel Formed by Self-Assembly of Ursolic Acid Appended with Aromatic Rings"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Jinrong","family":"Lu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Chemical Engineering, Hebei Key Laboratory for Environment Photocatalytic and Electrocatalytic Materials, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063210, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jinshan","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Chemical Engineering, Hebei Key Laboratory for Environment Photocatalytic and Electrocatalytic Materials, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063210, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yinghua","family":"Liang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Chemical Engineering, Hebei Key Laboratory for Environment Photocatalytic and Electrocatalytic Materials, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063210, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wenquan","family":"Cui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Chemical Engineering, Hebei Key Laboratory for Environment Photocatalytic and Electrocatalytic Materials, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063210, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,2,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1379","DOI":"10.1039\/C0CC03293J","article-title":"Supramolecular gel chemistry: Developments over the last decade","volume":"47","author":"Steed","year":"2011","journal-title":"Chem. 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