A clear and unambiguous rationalization of chirality induction, amplification, and subsequent inversion processes has been demonstrated using an achiral Mg(II)porphyrin dimer (host) and a series of chiral diols (guests) upon stepwise formation of a 1:1 host-guest polymer and 1:2 host-guest monomer via intermolecular assembling and disassembling processes. Crystallographic characterizations are reported here for both the polymer and the monomeric complexes, which enable us to completely scrutinize the structural and geometrical changes systematically in rationalizing their optical properties. The sign of the CD couplets for both the polymer and monomer are just opposite between and guests, which suggests that the chirality is dictated solely by the stereogenic projection of the chiral centers. Stronger intra- and intermolecular coupling in the polymeric complexes is responsible for the highly enhanced CD couplets as compared to the monomer and have only intramolecular coupling as also observed in their X-ray structures. DFT studies clearly support the experimental observations.
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Nanoscale
January 2025
Department of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari", (DIEF), Univ. of Modena, Via Vivarelli 10, 41125 Modena, Italy.
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State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
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Shenzhen Grubbs Institute and Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.
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Henan Key Laboratory of Crystalline Molecular Functional Materials, College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China.
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