Issue 7, 2015

Homochiral self-assembly of biocoordination polymers: anion-triggered helicity and absolute configuration inversion

Abstract

The different natures of the weakly coordinating anions – triflate or perchlorate – in the Cu2+-mediated self-assembly of cytidine monophosphate nucleotide play a fundamental role in the homochiral resolution process, yielding one-dimensional copper(II) coordination polymers of opposite helicity that can be easily inverted, in a reversible way, by changing the nature of the anion as revealed by circular dichroism experiments both in solution and in the solid state.

Graphical abstract: Homochiral self-assembly of biocoordination polymers: anion-triggered helicity and absolute configuration inversion

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
26 Mar 2015
Accepted
21 Apr 2015
First published
30 Apr 2015
This article is Open Access

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Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 4300-4305

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Homochiral self-assembly of biocoordination polymers: anion-triggered helicity and absolute configuration inversion

N. Marino, D. Armentano, E. Pardo, J. Vallejo, F. Neve, L. Di Donna and G. De Munno, Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 4300 DOI: 10.1039/C5SC01089F

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