Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Asymmetric catalysis mediated by a mirror symmetry-broken helical nanoribbon

  • Zhaocun Shen,
  • Yutao Sang,
  • Tianyu Wang,
  • Jian Jiang,
  • Yan Meng,
  • Yuqian Jiang,
  • Kou Okuro,
  • Takuzo Aida,
  • Minghua Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11840-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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If asymmetric catalysts were available by mirror symmetry breaking, an important insight may be given to how the biomolecular homochirality emerged in nature. Here, the authors report the first example of asymmetric catalysis by employing mirror symmetry-broken helical nanoribbons as the ligand.