Enantioselective recognition and separation of racemic 1-phenylethanol by a pair of 2D chiral coordination polymers

Inorg Chem. 2013 Oct 21;52(20):11694-6. doi: 10.1021/ic4021367. Epub 2013 Oct 1.

Abstract

A pair of 2D chiral coordination polymers were constructed through the self-assembly of a chiral metal-camphor-10-sulfonate salt and a bidentate linker, which show selective inclusion of S and R enantiomers of 1-phenylethanol respectively with an enantioselectivity of 9:1.