Dan Pantos and co-workers at Cambridge University explore the ‘sergeants and soldiers’ behaviour where a chiral derivative, amino acid derivatives of naphtalene-diimides (NDIs), imposes its chirality on a structure formed out of achiral derivatives.
Supramolecular systems, nanotubes, C60… everything included in this very interesting paper, front cover of OBC Issue 19.
Reading it is a must (although not an order!) and commenting on it an option
Free to access until 19th October
The sergeants-and-soldiers effect: chiral amplification in naphthalenediimide nanotubes
Tom W. Anderson, Jeremy K. M. Sanders and G. Dan Pantoş
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, 8, 4274-4280
DOI: 10.1039/C0OB00027B
