Chemical Communications 2012-02-04

Chirality sensing by a fluorescent binaphthocrown ether-polythiophene conjugate.

Gaku Fukuhara, Yoshihisa Inoue

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) 48(11) , 1641-3, (2012)

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Abstract

Chiral recognition abilities of the title host for (R)- and (S)-α-methyl-4-nitrobenzylamine were examined in the ground and excited states to give a relative affinity (K(R)/K(S)) of 2.16 by spectral titration and a relative rate constant (k(R)/k(S)) of 2.23 by fluorescence quenching, revealing that the quenching process is static and not enantiodifferentiating.This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2012