Chiral molecular tweezers

M Harmata - Accounts of chemical research, 2004 - ACS Publications
… prepared the chiral molecular tweezer 15 (Figure 8), using Tröger's base as a scaffold
around which the tweezer was built. The crystal structure shows that two molecules interact with …

Biomimetic Chiral Molecular Tweezers Based on Tryptophan-Containing Peptides with Chiroptical Evolution

Z Wang, H Ai, A Hao, P Xing - Chemistry of Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
chirality of tryptophan, the utilization of the WW sequence to fabricate chiral molecular
tweezers may transmit chirality … In this work, we report a bioinspired chiral molecular tweezer

New chiral molecular tweezers with a bis-Tröger's base skeleton

C Pardo, E Sesmilo, E Gutiérrez-Puebla… - The Journal of …, 2001 - ACS Publications
… , 4 is a concave chiral molecule, the chirality of which results … molecules”, 5 and they provide
relatively rigid chiral … in the synthesis of chiral molecular tweezers. Tröger's base analogues …

Fully supramolecular chiral hydrogen-bonded molecular tweezer

A Jozeliu̅naitė, T Javorskis… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
… Herein we propose a novel modular approach toward molecular tweezers solely based on
H-bonding (Figure 1d). The strategy proposed relies on selective transformation of cyclic H-…

[7]-Helicene: a chiral molecular tweezer for silver (I) salts

MJ Fuchter, J Schaefer, DK Judge, B Wardzinski… - Dalton …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
… We were therefore keen to investigate the experimental possibility of [7]-helicene functioning
as a chiral molecular tweezer of metallic cations. Although the resultant metal–helicene …

Chiral molecular tweezers: synthesis and reactivity in asymmetric hydrogenation

M Lindqvist, K Borre, K Axenov, B Kotai… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We report the synthesis and reactivity of a chiral aminoborane displaying both rapid and
reversible H 2 activation. The catalyst shows exceptional reactivity in asymmetric hydrogenation …

Enantioselective optical trapping of chiral nanoparticles with plasmonic tweezers

Y Zhao, AAE Saleh, JA Dionne - Acs Photonics, 2016 - ACS Publications
Molecular chirality is strongly related to biological function. For example, when a chiral
molecule such as a protein loses its original chirality, it can become toxic to cells, a process that …

Molecular tweezers: concepts and applications

J Leblond, A Petitjean - ChemPhysChem, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… ,5a,5b,5e α-chiral carboxylic acids5c and α-hydroxyketones… chiral substrates into the
metalloporphyrin-based tweezers … lead to efficient chirality transfer from the chiral guest to the …

Enantioselective recognitions of chiral molecular tweezers containing imidazoliums for amino acids

X Su, K Luo, Q Xiang, J Lan… - … of Molecular Asymmetry, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… In this article, recognization abilities of chiral molecular tweezers for amino acids or their …
chiral molecular tweezers, which have two chiral imidazolium pincers and show good chiral

Stimuli-Responsive Photoluminescent Molecular Tweezers for Highly Enantioselective Discrimination of Chiral Primary Amines

Z Zhang, X Li, Y Cheng, Y Yao, R Li, Q Liu… - Analytical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
… In summary, this work presents a molecular tweezers-based chiral fluorescence sensing …
for 31 chiral primary amine compounds, including amino acids, amino acid esters, and chiral