Supramolecular helical systems: helical assemblies of small molecules, foldamers, and polymers with chiral amplification and their functions

E Yashima, N Ousaka, D Taura, K Shimomura… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
In this review, we describe the recent advances in supramolecular helical assemblies
formed from chiral and achiral small molecules, oligomers (foldamers), and helical and …

Spontaneous deracemizations

T Buhse, JM Cruz, ME Noble-Teran… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Spontaneous deracemizations is a challenging, multidisciplinary subject in current chirality
research. In the absence of any chiral inductors, an achiral substance or a racemic …

Supramolecular polymerization

TFA De Greef, MMJ Smulders, M Wolffs… - Chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
1.1 Background In his historic review titled “Polymerization” in Chemical Reviews of 1931,
Wallace H. Carothers described his brilliant ideas about the rapidly developing field of …

Chirality-sensing supramolecular systems

GA Hembury, VV Borovkov, Y Inoue - Chemical reviews, 2008 - ACS Publications
Chirality that is induced, monitored, controlled, or applied via the principles of a
supramolecular approach is a modern interdisciplinary field of research that deals with …

Symmetry breaking in the supramolecular gels of an achiral gelator exclusively driven by π–π stacking

Z Shen, Y Jiang, T Wang, M Liu - Journal of the American …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular symmetry breaking, in which chiral assemblies with imbalanced right-and
left-handedness emerge from achiral molecular building blocks, has been achieved in the …

The more the slower: self-inhibition in supramolecular chirality induction, memory, erasure, and reversion

J Ji, X Wei, W Wu, C Fan, D Zhou… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Self-inhibition has been observed widely in hierarchical biochemical processes but has yet
to be demonstrated in pure molecular physical rather than chemical or biological processes …

Design and applications of molecular probes containing porphyrin derivatives

H Lee, KI Hong, WD Jang - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Porphyrins are heterocyclic macrocycle organic compounds, composed of four modified
pyrrole subunits interconnected at their α carbon atoms via methine bridges. Because of …

Selection of supramolecular chirality by application of rotational and magnetic forces

N Micali, H Engelkamp, PG Van Rhee… - Nature Chemistry, 2012 - nature.com
Many essential biological molecules exist only in one of two possible mirror-image
structures, either because they possess a chiral unit or through their structure (helices, for …

The use of circular dichroism spectroscopy for studying the chiral molecular self‐assembly: an overview

G Gottarelli, S Lena, S Masiero… - Chirality: The …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐assembly plays an important role in the formation of many chiral biological structures
and in the preparation of chiral functional materials. Therefore the control of chirality in …

Unexpectedly strong chiral amplification of chiral/achiral and chiral/chiral copolymers of biphenylylacetylenes and further enhancement/inversion and memory of the …

R Ishidate, AJ Markvoort, K Maeda… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We report an unexpectedly strong amplification of the macromolecular helicity in dynamic
helical copolymers of chiral/achiral and chiral/chiral (R/S) biphenylylacetylenes in which the …