Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Cation-induced chirality in a bifunctional metal-organic framework for quantitative enantioselective recognition

  • Zongsu Han,
  • Kunyu Wang,
  • Yifan Guo,
  • Wenjie Chen,
  • Jiale Zhang,
  • Xinran Zhang,
  • Giuliano Siligardi,
  • Sihai Yang,
  • Zhen Zhou,
  • Pingchuan Sun,
  • Wei Shi,
  • Peng Cheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13090-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Metal-organic frameworks with luminescence and chirality are promising for luminescent sensors for chiral molecules. Here, the authors use cation exchange to introduce chirality in multifunctional metal-organic framework systems for rapid enantioselective luminescent sensing.