Helicity control of a perfluorinated carbon chain within a chiral supramolecular cage monitored by VCD

Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 Feb 10;58(13):2152-2155. doi: 10.1039/d1cc06861j.

Abstract

Confinement within supramolecular systems is the leading technology to finely tune guest functional properties. In this communication we report the synthesis of a chiral supramolecular cage able to bias the helicity of a perfluorinated carbon chain hosted within the cage. We monitor the phenomenon of chiral induction by Vibrational Circular Dichroism (VCD) experiments complemented by DFT calculations over the possible conformers.