Chemical communications

Controlled generation of heterochiral or homochiral coordination polymer: helical conformational polymorphs and argentophilicity-induced spontaneous resolution

XD Chen, M Du, TCW Mak

Index: Chen, Xu-Dong; Du, Miao; Mak, Thomas C. W. Chemical Communications, 2005 , # 35 p. 4417 - 4419

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Abstract

In the pair of helical conformational polymorphs of the coordination polymer {[AgL](CF3SO3)}∞(L= 2-pyridinyl-3-pyridinylmethanone), the 21 helices of opposite chirality in one supramolecular isomer are stacked alternately to form a racemate, while the 41 helices in the other are assembled homochirally by inter-chain argentophilic interaction to generate a conglomerate.