Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Control of self-assembly pathways toward conglomerate and racemic supramolecular polymers

  • Marius Wehner,
  • Merle Insa Silja Röhr,
  • Vladimir Stepanenko,
  • Frank Würthner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19189-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Homo- and heterochiral aggregation is a process of interest to prebiotic and chiral separation chemistry. Here, the authors analyze the self-assembly of a racemic mixture into 1D supramolecular polymers and find homochiral aggregation into conglomerates under kinetic control, while under thermodynamic control a racemic polymer is formed.