Self-similar chiral organic molecular cages

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The endeavor to enhance utility of organic molecular cages involves the evolution of them into higher-level chiral superstructures with self-similar, presenting a meaningful yet challenging. In this work, 2D tri-bladed propeller-shaped triphenylbenzene serves as building blocks to synthesize a racemic 3D tri-bladed propeller-shaped helical molecular cage. This cage, in turn, acts as a building block for a pair of higher-level 3D tri-bladed chiral helical molecular cages, featuring multilayer sandwich structures and displaying elegant characteristics with self-similarity in discrete superstructures at different levels. The evolutionary procession of higher-level cages reveals intramolecular self-shielding effects and exclusive chiral narcissistic self-sorting behaviors. Enantiomers higher-level cages can be interconverted by introducing an excess of corresponding chiral cyclohexanediamine. In the solid state, higher-level cages self-assemble into supramolecular architectures of L-helical or D-helical nanofibers, achieving the scale transformation of chiral characteristics from chiral atoms to microscopic and then to mesoscopic levels.

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E-Artikel

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

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Nature communications - 15(2024), 1 vom: 22. Jan., Seite 670

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Zhen [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Qing-Pu [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Fei [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Hui [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Zi-Hui [VerfasserIn]
Yi, Chang-Hai [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Chun [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Chuan-Feng [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 25.01.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1038/s41467-024-44922-y

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NLM367441144