Chiralization of diamond nets: Stretchable helices and chiral and achiral nets with nearly identical unit cells
Chiralization of diamond nets: Stretchable helices and chiral and achiral nets with nearly identical unit cells
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200701374
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发表时间:
2007-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Bu, Xianhui
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作者:
Zhang, Jian;Bu, Xianhui
Current interest in homochiral solids is rapidly expanding because of their potential applications in enantioselective processes.[1–7] For inorganic oxides such as zeolites in which the basic structural building units such as [SiO4] 4À and [AlO4] 5À or secondary building units such as the double four-membered rings in [Si4Al4O16] 4À are achiral, the chirality must come from the spatial organization (usually helices) of achiral units. Zeolite b (polymorph A) is a rare chiral porous aluminosilicate, but its pure enantiomer has not yet been prepared because of the stacking disorder.[8] The desire to create materials of the zeolite b type has motivated researchers to use chiral molecules (such as amines [9] or metal complexes [10]) as templates to induce the chirality. However, chiral species used for this purpose tend to racemize under hydrothermal conditions or have a tendency to direct the synthesis of low-dimensional structures. Recent successes with metal–organic framework materials (MOFs)[11] have opened up new routes towards the synthesis of homochiral solids, even from achiral precursors.[12] Many MOFs have been found to adopt framework topologies commonly known in simple inorganic solids.[13] Unfortunately, the most common chiral net (quartz) is rarely adopted by these framework solids, whereas the achiral diamond net frequently occurs. Considering the ubiquity of the diamond net, a method for its conversion into the chiral net should be of general interest. Furthermore, the method developed for chiralization of the diamond net may be extensible to other four-connected nets such as those represented by zeolites.Homochiral solids can be constructed from enantiopure ligands.[1–5, 14–16] However, despite intensive research on chiral framework materials, homochiral 3D frameworks with the four-connected topology remain rare. Furthermore, comparative studies on the structure-directing effects of both enantiopure and racemic ligands should be of particular interest, because such studies can uncover important factors regulating the crystallization process of homochiral solids. Because the crystallization processes involving enantiopure and racemic ligands have fundamental differences owing to