Organic Letters 2003-03-06

Redox inversion of helicity in propeller-shaped molecules derived from s-methyl cysteine and methioninol.

Homar S Barcena, Andrea E Holmes, Steffen Zahn, James W Canary

Index: Org. Lett. 5(5) , 709-11, (2003)

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Abstract

One-electron reduction inverts the helicity of copper complexes formed from derivatives of S-methylcysteine and methioninol. The change in conformation of the organic ligand is followed in the exciton-coupled circular dichroism (ECCD) spectra of the complexes.