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Chiralization of Diamond Nets: Stretchable Helices and Chiral and Achiral Nets with Nearly Identical Unit Cells
Author(s) -
Zhang Jian,
Bu Xianhui
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200701374
Subject(s) - diamond , unit (ring theory) , crystallography , ligand (biochemistry) , materials science , nanotechnology , chemistry , stereochemistry , mathematics , composite material , biochemistry , mathematics education , receptor
Stretchable diamond nets : Homochiral and achiral diamond nets with nearly identical unit cells have been found in a family of 3D framework materials containing flexible helical substructures (see picture; Cd green, O red, C gray). Such structures raise intriguing prospects for developing general strategies for the direct conversion of achiral four‐connected networks into homochiral networks through ligand substitution.