Chemical Communications 2007-08-28

Enantioselective nanofiber-spinning of chiral calixarene receptor with guest.

Yan-Song Zheng, Ao Ji, Xian-Jie Chen, Jin-Lan Zhou

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) (32) , 3398-400, (2007)

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Abstract

Chiral para-tert-butylcalix[4]arene bearing (S)-alpha-methylbenzylamine groups at lower rim only self-assembles with one of two enantiomers of 2,3-dibenzoyltartaric acid into coiled nanofibers and the coiled nanofibers only stack with the nanofibers having the same handedness to construct bigger ribbon-like fibers bearing porosity.