Issue 17, 2003
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Chemical Communications

Spontaneous chiral resolution of a coordination polymer with distorted helical structure consisting of achiral building blocks†

Ulrich Siemeling,*a   Imke Scheppelmann,a   Beate Neumann,b   Anja Stammler,b   Hans-Georg Stammlerb  and  Jadwiga Frelekc  

* Corresponding authors

a Science Department and Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT), University of Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, D-34132 Kassel, Germany
E-mail: siemeling@uni-kassel.de
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b Department of Chemistry, University of Bielefeld, Universitätsstr. 25, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany

c Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warszawa, Poland

Abstract

Reaction of achiral 2,5-diphenyl-3,4-di(3-pyridyl)cyclopenta-2,4-dien-1-one (2) with ZnCl2 and HgBr2, respectively, afforded the helically chiral coordination polymers [(2)ZnCl2]∞ and [(2)HgBr2]∞, which show spontaneous chiral resolution, forming colonies of homochiral crystals.

Graphical abstract: Spontaneous chiral resolution of a coordination polymer with distorted helical structure consisting of achiral building blocks

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B307161H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
23 Jun 2003
Accepted
17 Jul 2003
First published
28 Jul 2003

Chem. Commun., 2003, 2236-2237

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Spontaneous chiral resolution of a coordination polymer with distorted helical structure consisting of achiral building blocks

U. Siemeling, I. Scheppelmann, B. Neumann, A. Stammler, H. Stammler and J. Frelek, Chem. Commun., 2003, 2236 DOI: 10.1039/B307161H

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