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Emerging subject for chiral separation science: Cluster boron compounds
Author(s) -
Horáková Hana,
Grüner Bohumír,
Vespalec Radim
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
chirality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.43
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1520-636X
pISSN - 0899-0042
DOI - 10.1002/chir.20918
Subject(s) - chirality (physics) , chemistry , boron , cluster (spacecraft) , chemical physics , enantiomer , computational chemistry , organic chemistry , chiral symmetry , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , nambu–jona lasinio model , programming language , quark
The structural chirality is an inherent feature of fully synthetic boron cluster compounds that sometimes exhibit unique biochemical effects. HPLC studies with zwitter‐ionic cluster boron compounds and electrophoretic studies with boron cluster anions reveal that the chiral separability of these species is remarkably dissimilar to that of organic species, if uncharged cyclodextrins are used as chiral selectors. Furthermore, marked differences were found between the analytical characteristics of the chiral separations of the boron cluster species and those of the organic species with uncharged cyclodextrins. The present‐day experimental database indicates that the rules valid for the chiral separations of the organic species cannot be applied to the chiral separations of the boron cluster species without experimental verification. The current extent of research work devoted to the investigation of chirality and chiral separations of boron cluster species is negligibly small in comparison with that devoted to the investigation of chirality and chiral separations of organic species. This makes difficult a reliable explanation of both the particularities observed in chiral separations of boron cluster species with cyclodextrins as chiral selectors and the strange effects related to these separations at the moment. Chirality, 2011. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.