Spontaneous chiral resolution of a coordination polymer with distorted helical structure consisting of achiral building blocksDedicated to Professor Peter Jutzi on the occasion of his 65th birthday.
- 28 July 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 17,p. 2236-2237
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b307161h
Abstract
Reaction of achiral 2,5-diphenyl-3,4-di(3-pyridyl)cyclopenta-2,4-dien-1-one (2) with ZnCl2 and HgBr2, respectively, afforded the helically chiral coordination polymers [(2)ZnCl2]∞ and [(2)HgBr2]∞, which show spontaneous chiral resolution, forming colonies of homochiral crystals.Keywords
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