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Development of Heterogeneous Enantioselective Catalysts using Chiral Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)
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Chiral transformations of achiral porous metal-organic frameworks via a stepwise approach
Fei-Yan Yi1, Jian Zhang, Hai-Xia Zhang
1State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 5625 Renmin Street, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P.R. China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 19, 2012
Abstract:
A family of chiral porous metal-organic frameworks were synthesized through an unprecedented chiral transformation process only involving achiral components. This method may provide a new point of view to rationally design targeted chiral MOFs and may shed light on the symmetry breaking mechanism.
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