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A Metal‐Ion‐Driven Supramolecular Chirality Pendulum
Author(s) -
Haberhauer Gebhard
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.201004460
Subject(s) - chirality (physics) , pendulum , supramolecular chemistry , classical mechanics , supramolecular chirality , physics , nanotechnology , materials science , quantum mechanics , molecule , chiral symmetry breaking , nambu–jona lasinio model , quark
Tick tock : The arms of a chirality pendulum can be completely and reversibly moved forward and backward like the pendulum of a clock by coordination and removal of a metal center (see picture). Each motion leads to a complete inversion of the configuration (swinging forth: P → M and swinging back: M → P ).