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A Tale of Three Carboxylates: Cooperative Asymmetric Crystallization of a Three‐Dimensional Microporous Framework from Achiral Precursors
Author(s) -
Zhang Jian,
Chen Shumei,
Nieto Ruben A.,
Wu Tao,
Feng Pingyun,
Bu Xianhui
Publication year - 2010
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.200906248
Subject(s) - microporous material , crystallization , nothing , chirality (physics) , asymmetric induction , reagent , phase (matter) , content (measure theory) , combinatorial chemistry , chemistry , computer science , materials science , crystallography , enantioselective synthesis , organic chemistry , physics , philosophy , mathematics , catalysis , particle physics , chiral symmetry breaking , epistemology , symmetry breaking , mathematical analysis , nambu–jona lasinio model
Something for nothing? A chiral induction reagent catalyzes the growth of chiral crystals and controls their bulk chirality. Time‐dependent experiments show that an initial achiral phase is slowly converted into enantioenriched crystals in the presence of the chiral induction agent.