An organogel system can control the stereochemical course of anthracene photodimerization.
A novel photoresponsive organogel with a binary gelator containing 2-anthracenecarboxylic acid shows a high degree of stereochemical control, resulting in head-to-head photocyclodimers exclusively together with significant enantiomeric excess induced by the chiral counterpart of the gelator.
Dawn
Arnab
A
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan.
Fujita
Norifumi
N
Haraguchi
Shuichi
S
Sada
Kazuki
K
Shinkai
Seiji
S