Supramolecular Chirality: Chiral hydrogen-bonded supermolecules from achiral molecular components
✍ Scribed by Mauricio Suárez; Neil Branda; Jean-Marie Lehn; André Decian; Jean Fischer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- German
- Weight
- 589 KB
- Volume
- 81
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0018-019X
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✦ Synopsis
Chiral supermolecules may be obtained from suitable achiral molecular constituents associated through a dissymmetrizing interaction mode. This is the case for the supermolecules I-IV formed by hydrogen-bonding association between the achiral complementary components la, b and Za,b,c. The crystal structures of the supermolecular pairs 1-111 and of the homochiral aggregate of two ternary supermolecules IV have been determined. The structural data are discussed.
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