Chiral discrimination of enantiomers with a self-assembled monolayer of functionalized β-cyclodextrins on Au surfaces

✍ Scribed by Siu-Choon Ng; Tong Sun; Hardy S.O Chan

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 207 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(02)00267-8

✦ Synopsis

A facile synthetic route to mercaptyl functionalized b-cyclodextrins was devised and self-assembled onto the gold electrodes of a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) to afford a durable sensor capable of chiral discrimination of enantiomers.