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Frontispiece: Chiral Triptycenes: Concepts, Progress and Prospects
Author(s) -
Khan Md. Nasim,
Wirth Thomas
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.202182463
Subject(s) - limelight , nanotechnology , chemistry , materials science
The journey of chiral triptycenes started in 1962 with their first synthesis. Until 1984 several chiral triptycene derivatives were synthesized and their optical properties studied in relation to the substituted functional groups including the determination of their absolute configurations. Afterwards, a huge gap of almost 30 years remained in the development of chiral triptycenes. Only in 2014, chiral triptycenes caught again the attention of researchers when research based on chiral triptycenes applied to the synthesis of chiral materials was published. This work brought the almost forgotten chiral triptycenes back to the limelight. This Minireview describes the initial history of developments of chiral triptycenes and their comeback to important applications in advanced materials and catalysis after a research gap of almost 30 years. For more information, see the Minireview by T. Wirth et al. on page 7059.