Michael Mastalerz, Philippe Wagner, Frank Rominger, Wen-Shan Zhang, Jürgen H Gross, Sven M Elbert, Rasmus R Schröder
Chiral self-sorting is intricately connected to the complicated chiral processes observed in nature and no artificial systems of comparably complexity have been generated by chemists. However, only a few examples of purely organic molecules have been reported so far, where the self-sorting process could be controlled. Among those systems a handful of shape-persistent organic cages were studied and rarely narcisstic or social self-sorting could be controlled. Herein, we describe the chiral self-sorting of large cubic [8+12] salicylimine cage compounds based on a chiral TBTQ precursor...
January 21, 2021: Angewandte Chemie