title: New chiral zinc complexes: synthesis, structure, and induction of axial chirality.
abstract: We describe an efficient methodology for the preparation of new chiral zinc complexes by assembling dynamically racemic biphenol derivatives and chiral 1,2-diamines with suitable zinc(II) precursors. Mononuclear and dinuclear zinc(II) complexes were formed from differently substituted biphenols. The solid-state and solution structural characterization of the resulting compounds allowed us to demonstrate a preferential sense of induced axial chirality for mononuclear complexes, a phenomenon that was not observed for the dinuclear ones.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Avinguda Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain.
authors.forename: Helmut
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Degenbeck
authors.forename: Anne-Sophie
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Felten
authors.forename: Eduardo C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Escudero-Adán
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Benet-Buchholz
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Di Bari
authors.forename: Gennaro
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pescitelli
authors.forename: Anton
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vidal-Ferran