Issue 36, 2016
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Chemical Communications

Retention of chirality in electron-induced reactions†

Fang Cheng,‡a   Lydie Leung,a   Chen-Guang Wang,ab   Wei Jib  and  John C. Polanyi*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories, Department of Chemistry and Institute of Optical Sciences, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
E-mail: jpolanyi@chem.utoronto.ca

b Department of Physics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Functional Materials & Micro-nano Devices, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China

Abstract

Two enantiomers were observed by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) when meta-iodopyridine was physisorbed on a 4.6 K Cu(110) surface. The chirality of the reagent was retained in the products of the electron-induced reaction. Dynamical calculations showed this to be a consequence of the reaction occurring on one side of the mirror plane.

Graphical abstract: Retention of chirality in electron-induced reactions

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC00849F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
27 Jan 2016
Accepted
04 Apr 2016
First published
05 Apr 2016

Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 6115-6118

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Retention of chirality in electron-induced reactions

F. Cheng, L. Leung, C. Wang, W. Ji and J. C. Polanyi, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 6115 DOI: 10.1039/C6CC00849F

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