Issue 2, 2021

Impact of native achiral ligands on the chirality of enantiopure cysteine stabilized CdSe nanocrystals

Abstract

The chirality of inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) was demonstrated to be sensitive to the particle structures and chiral molecules capped on the NC surfaces. In this work, we found the native achiral ligands used for the synthesis of NCs could also influence their circular dichroism (CD) response. With different native ‘growth’ ligands but similar semiconductor cores, the CD spectra of NCs exhibited mirror images by using the same enantiopure cysteine (Cys) ligands, indicating the inversion of NC chirality. In addition, distinct anisotropic dissymmetry factors (g-factor) were observed. With appropriate native ligands, we prepared chiral cysteine stabilized spherical CdSe NCs (quantum dots, QDs) with the highest g-factor ever reported.

Graphical abstract: Impact of native achiral ligands on the chirality of enantiopure cysteine stabilized CdSe nanocrystals

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
20 Aug 2020
Accepted
24 Nov 2020
First published
24 Nov 2020

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021,9, 555-561

Impact of native achiral ligands on the chirality of enantiopure cysteine stabilized CdSe nanocrystals

X. Shao, Y. Wu, S. Jiang, B. Li, T. Zhang and Y. Yan, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021, 9, 555 DOI: 10.1039/C9TC07090G

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