Song Gao and colleagues from Peking University investigate a way of improving the chances of obtaining chiral crystalline solids, in this CrystEngComm Hot article.
Control of chirality is important in the making of drugs, and in materials that are used for things like second-order nonlinear optics and ferroelectrics. Here Gao uses more acentric centers in the crystal lattice, to try and obtain chiral solids from achiral starting materials.
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Chiral crystalline solids of ammonium-templated ErIII–formate frameworks assembled from three achiral acentric components
Bin Liu, Hai-Bin Zheng, Zhe-Ming Wang and Song Gao
CrystEngComm, 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1CE05250K
