Probing molecular motion and chemical reactions inside the chiral tri-o-thymotide clathrate cavity by solid state NMR techniques

Abstract

Solid state NMR techniques offer a non-destructive alternative to wet chemistry methods in following enantiomeric excess and reactions in chiral clathrates, and show that the two optically distinct populations, one of which cannot be defined by X-ray diffraction, can be characterized by their distinct dynamic behaviour.