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

Abstract

The combination of four enantiomerically pure organic tectons composed of a rigid chiral backbone bearing two terminal pyridyl coordinating sites with ZnSiF₆ behaving as an infinite pillar leads to the formation of tubular 2-D enantiomerically pure helical channels with controlled size and orientation.