Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Chiral expression from molecular to macroscopic level via pH modulation in terbium coordination polymers

  • Jian Huang,
  • Hong-ming Ding,
  • Yan Xu,
  • Dai Zeng,
  • Hui Zhu,
  • Dong-Mian Zang,
  • Song-Song Bao,
  • Yu-qiang Ma,
  • Li-Min Zheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02260-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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In biological systems it is common for molecular chirality to be expressed at the macroscopic level, but such translation is difficult to achieve in synthetic systems. Here, the authors synthesise homochiral terbium-based coordination polymers with both helical and crystalline morphologies.