Metallo-Supramolecular Octahedral Cages with Three Types of Chirality towards Spontaneous Resolution was written by Xu, Chen;Lin, Quanjie;Shan, Chuan;Han, Xin;Wang, Hao;Wang, Heng;Zhang, Wenjing;Chen, Zhi;Guo, Chenxing;Xie, Yinghao;Yu, Xiujun;Song, Bo;Song, Heng;Wojtas, Lukasz;Li, Xiaopeng. And the article was included in Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in 2022.COA of Formula: C2CuF6O6S2 This article mentions the following:
Chirality is one of the most important intrinsic properties of (supra)mols. In this study, the authors obtained enantiomeric metallo-supramol. octahedra without using any chiral sources. Such cages were self-assembled by prochiral trispyridine ligand L , L = 2,7,12-tri(3-pyridyl)-5,5′,10,10′,15,15′-hexaethyltruxene, based on a C3h truxene core and CuII salts. Crystallization of the cages with BF4– as counterions afforded racemate crystals; while crystallizations of cages with ClO4– and OTf– as counterions resulted in conglomerates with spontaneous resolution Three types of chirality were observed in each cage, including planar chirality of the truxene core, axial chirality from the pyridyl and truxene moieties, and propeller chirality of the pyridyl-CuII coordination sites. The cages reported here are among the largest discrete synthetic metallo-supramols. ever reported with chiral self-sorting behavior. Remarkably, the chiral cages exhibited very slow racemization even at low concentrations, suggesting their high stability in solution In the experiment, the researchers used many compounds, for example, Copper(II) trifluoromethanesulfonate (cas: 34946-82-2COA of Formula: C2CuF6O6S2).
Copper(II) trifluoromethanesulfonate (cas: 34946-82-2) belongs to copper catalysts. Transition metal-catalyzed chemical transformation of organic electrophiles and organometallic reagents belong to the most important cross-coupling reaction in organic synthesis. It is clear from the impact copper catalysis has had on organic synthesis that copper should be considered a first line catalyst for many organic reactions.COA of Formula: C2CuF6O6S2
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Copper catalysis in organic synthesis – NCBI,
Special Issue “Fundamentals and Applications of Copper-Based Catalysts”