Chiral Induction with Chiral Conformational Switches in the Limit of Low 鈥淪ergeants to Soldiers鈥?Ratio

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• 作者：Ajiguli Nuermaimaiti ; Christian Bombis ; Martin M. Knudsen ; Jacob R. Cramer ; Erik L忙gsgaard ; Flemming Besenbacher ; Kurt V. Gothelf ; Trolle R. Linderoth
• 刊名：ACS Nano
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：August 26, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：8
• 期：8
• 页码：8074-8081
• 全文大小：423K
• ISSN：1936-086X

文摘

Molecular-level insights into chiral adsorption phenomena are highly relevant within the fields of asymmetric heterogeneous catalysis or chiral separation and may contribute to understand the origins of homochirality in nature. Here, we investigate chiral induction by the 鈥渟ergeants and soldiers鈥?mechanism for an oligo(phenylene ethynylene) based chiral conformational switch by coadsorbing it with an intrinsically chiral seed on Au(111). Through statistical analysis of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) data, we demonstrate successful chiral induction with a very low concentration of seeding molecules down to 3%. The microscopic mechanism for the observed chiral induction is suggested to involve nucleation of the intrinsically chiral seeds, allowing for effective transfer and amplification of chirality to large numbers of soldier target molecules.

Keywords:

Au(111); molecular self-assembly; chiral induction; homochiral surface; molecular conformations; scanning tunneling microscopy