In this CrystEngComm Hot Article, Steven De Feyter, Albertus Schenning and colleagues investigate how molecular chirality can be expressed at the supramolecular level during 2D self-assembly.
They studied the formation of a chiral monolayer of a substituted hexaarylbenzene with 24 stereogenic centres at the interface between a liquid and highly oriented pyrolytic graphite. When both enantiomers are co-adsorbed on the surface, a racemic conglomerate is formed.
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A multivalent hexapod having 24 stereogenic centers: chirality and conformational dynamics in homochiral and heterochiral systems
Hong Xu, Martin Wolffs, Željko Tomović, E. W. Meijer, Albertus P. H. J. Schenning and Steven De Feyter
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1CE05433C, Paper
