Asymmetric Catalytic Assembly of Triple-Columned and Multilayered Chiral Folding Polymers Showing Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE)

Jia-Yin Wang; Yao Tang; Guan-Zhao Wu; Sai Zhang; Hossein Rouh; Shengzhou Jin; Ting Xu; Yu Wang; Daniel Unruh; Kazimierz Surowiec; Yanzhang Ma; Yunze Li; Courtney Katz; Hongjun Liang; Weilong Cong; Guigen Li

doi:10.1002/chem.202200183

Asymmetric Catalytic Assembly of Triple-Columned and Multilayered Chiral Folding Polymers Showing Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE)

Chemistry. 2022 Feb 1;28(7):e202200183. doi: 10.1002/chem.202200183. Epub 2022 Jan 28.

Authors

Jia-Yin Wang¹, Yao Tang², Guan-Zhao Wu^{1

2}, Sai Zhang², Hossein Rouh², Shengzhou Jin¹, Ting Xu¹, Yu Wang¹, Daniel Unruh², Kazimierz Surowiec², Yanzhang Ma³, Yunze Li⁴, Courtney Katz⁵, Hongjun Liang⁵, Weilong Cong⁴, Guigen Li^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Chemistry and BioMedical Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, P. R. China.
² Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79409-1061, USA.
³ Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79409, USA.
⁴ Department of Industrial Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79409-3061, USA.
⁵ Department of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, 79430-6551, USA.

PMID: 35092103
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202200183

Abstract

Invited for the cover of this issue are Guigen Li's groups at Texas Tech University and Nanjing University. The cover artwork shows that chirality patterns exist from universal to molecular levels showing light emission properties. Read the full story of multilayer 3D chirality and its asymmetric catalytic synthesis at 10.1002/chem.202104102.

MeSH terms

Catalysis
Humans
Polymers*

Substances

Polymers