Issue 68, 2013
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Chemical Communications

‘Sergeants-and-Corporals’ principle in chiral induction at an interface†

Iris Destoop,‡a   Hong Xu,‡a   Cristina Oliveras-González,b   Elke Ghijsens,a   David B. Amabilino*b  and  Steven De Feyter*a  

* Corresponding authors

a KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium
E-mail: steven.defeyter@chem.kuleuven.be
Fax: +32 1632 7990
Tel: +32 1632 7921

b Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus Universitari, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
E-mail: amabilino@icmab.es
Fax: +34 935 805 729
Tel: +34 935 801 853

Abstract

Self-assembly of an achiral porphyrin at the interface between a chiral solvent and an atomically flat substrate renders the monolayer chiral, and a non-racemic solvent can even overrule the intrinsic expression of chirality in the self-assembly of chiral molecules.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC42584C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
09 Apr 2013
Accepted
10 May 2013
First published
13 May 2013
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 7477-7479

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‘Sergeants-and-Corporals’ principle in chiral induction at an interface

I. Destoop, H. Xu, C. Oliveras-González, E. Ghijsens, D. B. Amabilino and S. De Feyter, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 7477 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC42584C

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