Molecular tectonics: design of enantiomerically pure helical tubular crystals with controlled channel size and orientation.

Chem Commun (Camb)

Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination Organique (UMR CNRS-UDS 7140), Université de Strasbourg, Institut Le Bel, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, 67000 Strasbourg, France.

Published: July 2011

The combination of four enantiomerically pure organic tectons composed of a rigid chiral backbone bearing two terminal pyridyl coordinating sites with ZnSiF(6) behaving as an infinite pillar leads to the formation of tubular 2-D enantiomerically pure helical channels with controlled size and orientation.

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