Nanostructuring with chirality: binaphthyl-based synthons for the production of functional oriented nanomaterials.
Chirality is a powerful tool for the generation of order, directionality, and, as such, of function, in assembled nanoscale chemical devices. Axially chiral binaphthyls have been widely used in organic synthesis; the stability of the enantiomers enables their use as robust chirality inducers and catalysts in asymmetric reactions, and they are nowadays industrially applied in a variety of organic transformations. Applications of these compounds in the field of nanosciences are more recent, and not yet fully explored. The integration of such a robust class of chiral compounds, capable of efficient transfer of stereochemical information, into functional aggregates and nanoarchitectures is of great current interest. We will discuss preeminent examples of applications of these synthons in several fields of nanoscience, such as reticular chemistry, non-linear optical materials and imaging, and liquid crystals.
Department of Chemistry, University of Pavia, Viale Taramelli 10, 27100 Pavia, Italy. dario.pasini@unipv.it.
Marco
M
Caricato
Arvind K
AK
Sharma
Carmine
C
Coluccini
Dario
D
Pasini