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Synfacts 2011(2): 0147-0147  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1259258
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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Controlling Supramolecular Chirality

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, D. Barney Walker
G. Haberhauer*
Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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19 January 2011 (online)

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Significance

The author reports on a complete and reversible inversion of supramolecular chirality that results in a large amplitude molecular rearrangement. The diastereomer P-2 is energeti­cally stabilized with respect to M-2 and can be reversibly converted into the pseudoenantiomer [M-2*M2]4+ by addition of metal ions (M²+).