Chiral recognition at the air–water interface

Chiral tetrakis(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin aggregates induced by enantiomeric dibenzoyl tartaric acids at the air–water interface

“…Chirality has attracted much attention in various scientific disciplines, including studies of the origin of biomolecular chirality, enantiomerical drug purification, helical synthetic polymers, supramolecular systems, and the separation of racemic compounds [1][2][3]. Traditionally, asymmetric synthesis of novel organic and inorganic compounds has become a very successful area of chemistry and an important method for the preparation of novel chiral materials [4,5].…”

Orientation and distance dependent chiral discrimination in the first step of the aminoacylation reaction: Integrated molecular orbital and semi-empirical method (ONIOM) based calculation

“…Chiral molecular recognition in diverse systems including biological and biomimetic is a subject of intensive study in recent years [10,12,32]. Electrostatic interaction among the reacting species and neighbors and confinement within a nanodimension are among the several factors that are noted to be responsible for the surprising precision of the discrimination.…”

“…This subtle phenomenon induces as well as controls the large length scale architecture composed of chiral molecules. Molecular understanding of chiral discrimination and chiral recognition recently emerged in the case of biomimetic systems such as bilayers and monolayer as well as in other systems [9][10][11][12]. The intermolecular pair potential between chiral molecules is strongly orientation dependent in the condensed phase of monolayers and the nature of dependence is different for enantiomeric and racemic pair.…”

Two-dimensional nanoarchitectonics based on self-assembly

“…10) [183,184]. An octacoordinate sodium complex of a polycholesterylsubstituted cyclen embedded at the air-water interface was used as a Fig.…”