Issue 27, 2012
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Dalton Transactions

[7]-Helicene: a chiral molecular tweezer for silver(i) salts†

Matthew J. Fuchter,*a   Julia Schaefer,b   Dilraj K. Judge,a   Benjamin Wardzinski,a   Marko Weimara  and  Ingo Krossingb  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
E-mail: m.fuchter@imperial.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 5815

b Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum FMF and Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albert–Ludwigs–Universität Freiburg, Albertstr. 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
E-mail: ingo.krossing@ac.uni-freiburg.de
Fax: +49 761 203 6001
Tel: +49 761 203 6122

Abstract

We have unambiguously demonstrated the binding of the silver(I) ion in the central cavity of [7]-helicene, given that the counterion is weakly coordinating. In such a binding mode, the helicene is functioning as a chiral molecular tweezer.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2DT30900A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
25 Apr 2012
Accepted
22 May 2012
First published
29 May 2012

Dalton Trans., 2012,41, 8238-8241

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[7]-Helicene: a chiral molecular tweezer for silver(I) salts

M. J. Fuchter, J. Schaefer, D. K. Judge, B. Wardzinski, M. Weimar and I. Krossing, Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 8238 DOI: 10.1039/C2DT30900A

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