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Cover Picture: Chiral Borromeates (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 25/2006)
Author(s) -
Pentecost Cari D.,
Peters Andrea J.,
Chichak Kelly S.,
Cave Gareth W. V.,
Cantrill Stuart J.,
Stoddart J. Fraser
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200690086
Subject(s) - stereocenter , chirality (physics) , enantiomer , stereospecificity , cover (algebra) , stereochemistry , crystallography , chemistry , physics , enantioselective synthesis , chiral symmetry , organic chemistry , catalysis , nuclear physics , engineering , mechanical engineering , quark , nambu–jona lasinio model
Chirality is transferred from 12 stereogenic centers, all of the same chirality, to the six templating zinc(II) ions in each enantiomer of an optically active Borromeate. Recognizing that the three‐component Borromean link is topologically achiral, J. F. Stoddart et al. describe in their Communication on page 4099 ff. the dynamic stereospecific synthesis of both all‐ R and all‐ S enantiomers of the Borromeate and report the X‐ray crystal structure of the all‐ R enantiomer.