Synthesis of alternating metallocopolymers by chiral recognition
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Enzymatic Cascade Reactions for the Synthesis of Chiral Amino Alcohols from L-lysine
Published on: February 16, 2018
Maria Torres-Werlé1, Benoît Heinrich1, Aline Maisse-François1
1Institut de Physique et Chimie de Strasbourg, CNRS-Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg cedex, France.
Abstract:
We report the synthesis of chiral enantiopure polytopic bridging ligands, which may lead to the formation of metallosupramolecular polymers with zinc (II) as metal linker. We show that chiral C2 -symmetric bisoxazoline ligands are useful moieties to efficiently generate heterochiral complexes and thus polymeric entities. The corresponding metallopolymers were further characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) to obtain information on the level of crystallinity of our different metallopolymers.
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