Issue 44, 2021

Amino-acid-substituted polyacetylene-based chiral core–shell microspheres: helix structure induction and application for chiral resolution and adsorption

Abstract

The chiral composite materials currently synthesized with helical polymers directly compounded with the substrate, due to changes in chemical bonds and steric hindrance during the compounding process, may result in destruction of the helical structure. This article reports on a novel method to prepare chiral core–shell microspheres. Specifically, a random coil polymer was first compounded with the substrate and subsequently induced into a helical structure. We have synthesized chiral core–shell microspheres using amino-acid-substituted polyacetylene and preformed polydivinylbenzene (PDVB) microspheres. It was found that the polymer chains forming the shell can transform from random coil to one-handed helix in aqueous Cu2+ solution. Due to their outstanding optical activity, the chiral microspheres successfully induced enantioselective crystallization and adsorption from racemic Boc-(D,L)-alanine, Boc-(D,L)-asparagine, (D,L)-methionine and (D,L)-proline, with ee up to 95%, 90%, 78% and 80%. This work presents a new strategy to fabricate chiral composite materials and provides the possibility to synthesize chiral materials from nonhelical structured polymers.

Graphical abstract: Amino-acid-substituted polyacetylene-based chiral core–shell microspheres: helix structure induction and application for chiral resolution and adsorption

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
09 Aug 2021
Accepted
10 Sep 2021
First published
20 Sep 2021

Polym. Chem., 2021,12, 6404-6416

Amino-acid-substituted polyacetylene-based chiral core–shell microspheres: helix structure induction and application for chiral resolution and adsorption

L. Yin, H. Duan, T. Chen, D. Qi and J. Deng, Polym. Chem., 2021, 12, 6404 DOI: 10.1039/D1PY01067K

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