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Inside Cover: Chiral Nanoscale Metal–Organic Tetrahedral Cages: Diastereoselective Self‐Assembly and Enantioselective Separation (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 24/2010)
Author(s) -
Liu Taifeng,
Liu Yan,
Xuan Weimin,
Cui Yong
Publication year - 2010
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.201002350
Subject(s) - enantiopure drug , enantioselective synthesis , octahedron , metal , self assembly , crystallization , nanoscopic scale , metal ions in aqueous solution , crystallography , tetrahedron , chemistry , materials science , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , nanotechnology , crystal structure , catalysis
The diastereoselective self‐assembly of homochiral porous metal–organic tetrahedral M 4 L 6 cages from enantiopure C 2 ‐symmetric bridging ligands (H 2 L) and C 3 ‐symmetric octahedral trivalent metal ions is described by Cui and co‐workers in their Communication on page 4121 ff. The cages can resolve small racemic alcohols with high enantioselectivity (up to 99.5% ee) by crystallization inclusion, although kinetically stable host–guest complexes were not formed with alcohols in solution.