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Chemical Communications

Supramolecular chirality transfer to large random aggregates of porphyrins†‡

Ilaria Occhiuto,a   Giovanna De Luca,*b   Valentina Villari,c   Andrea Romeo,ad   Norberto Micali,c   Robert F. Pasternacke  and  Luigi Monsù Scolaro*ad  

* Corresponding authors

a Dipartimento di Chimica Inorganica, Chimica Analitica e Chimica Fisica, and C.I.R.C.M.S.B., University of Messina, V.le F. Stagno D’Alcontres 31, Vill. S. Agata, 98166 Messina, Italy
E-mail: lmonsu@unime.it

b CNR-IMCB, Istituto per i Materiali Compositi e Biomedici, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125 Napoli, Italy
E-mail: giovanna.deluca@cnr.it

c CNR-IPCF, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, 98158, V.le F. Stagno d’Alcontres 31, Messina, Italy

d CNR-ISMN, Istituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati, 98166, V.le F. Stagno d’Alcontres 37, Messina, Italy

e Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, USA

Abstract

Chirality is rapidly induced in a fractal aggregate of the porphyrin t-CuPagg by addition of α-helical poly-glutamate. These results demonstrate a facile transfer of chirality via noncovalent interactions to preformed supramolecular assemblies grown in the absence of a chiral template.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC11165E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
26 Feb 2011
Accepted
01 Apr 2011
First published
20 Apr 2011

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 6045-6047

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Supramolecular chirality transfer to large random aggregates of porphyrins

I. Occhiuto, G. De Luca, V. Villari, A. Romeo, N. Micali, R. F. Pasternack and L. M. Scolaro, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 6045 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC11165E

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