Chiral supramolecular nanomaterials: From chirality transfer and amplification to regulation and applications

W Chen, B Li, G Gao, T Sun - Interdisciplinary Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Chirality is an omnipresent structural feature found in nature. The transfer and amplification
of chirality are widely recognized phenomena. In appropriate solvents, chiral molecules can …

Chirality in organic and mineral systems: A review of reactivity and alteration processes relevant to prebiotic chemistry and life detection missions

C Lee, JM Weber, LE Rodriguez, RY Sheppard… - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
Chirality is a central feature in the evolution of biological systems, but the reason for
biology's strong preference for specific chiralities of amino acids, sugars, and other …

Control of stereogenic oxygen in a helically chiral oxonium ion

O Smith, MV Popescu, MJ Hindson, RS Paton… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The control of tetrahedral carbon stereocentres remains a focus of modern synthetic
chemistry and is enabled by their configurational stability. By contrast, trisubstituted nitrogen …

Immobilizing Stereogenic Nitrogen Center in Doubly Fused Triarylamines through Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric C–H Activation/Seven-Membered-Ring Formation

T Yu, S Cheng, Y Luo, J Li, Y Liang, S Luo, Q Zhu - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
A series of doubly fused triarylamines containing conformationally stable stereogenic
nitrogen centers has been constructed through palladium-catalyzed enantioselective C–H …

Deracemization of Atropisomeric Biaryls Enabled by Copper Catalysis

J Zhang, K Wang, C Zhu - JACS Au, 2024 - ACS Publications
Atropisomeric biaryls have found crucial applications in versatile chiral catalysts as well as
in ligands for transition metals. Herein, we have developed an efficient crystallization …

Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of chiral sulfonium ylides with S-stereogenic center

XJ Wang, HH Liu, JK Cheng, SH Xiang, B Tan - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
A sulfur stereogenic center is found in naturally occurring compounds and constitutes an
important design element for pharmaceuticals and chiral auxiliaries. In view of the broad …

Design of Stable Chiral Aminosulfonium Ylides and Their Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis

W Bao, XJ Wang, SH Wang, SW Chen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The isolation and catalytic enantioselective synthesis of configurationally stable S‐
stereogenic sulfonium ylides have been significant challenges in the field of asymmetric …

Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Tröger's Base Analogues with Nitrogen Stereocenter

C Ma, Y Sun, J Yang, H Guo, J Zhang - ACS Central Science, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen stereocenters are common chiral units in natural products, pharmaceuticals, and
chiral catalysts. However, their research has lagged largely behind, compared with carbon …

Fine tuning of electrosynthesis pathways by modulation of the electrolyte solvation structure

F Dorchies, A Grimaud - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrosynthesis is a method of choice for designing new synthetic routes owing to its ability
to selectively conduct reactions at controlled potentials, high functional group tolerance, mild …

Controlled fabrication of hierarchical porous carbon nanospheres with high doped nitrogen content for high-performance adsorbent of biomacromolecule

Y Xue, Z Wang, Y Zhang, Z Zhu, X Li, X Du - Carbon, 2025 - Elsevier
Constructing nitrogen-doped porous carbons with high specific surface area, rapid mass
transfer channels, and positive charge is a crucial requirement for high-performance …