Chiral induction, modulation and locking in porphyrin based supramolecular assemblies with circularly polarized light

Jingang Hu; Yifan Xie; Hongli Zhang; Chenlu He; Qijin Zhang; Gang Zou

doi:10.1039/c9cc01613a

Chiral induction, modulation and locking in porphyrin based supramolecular assemblies with circularly polarized light

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Apr 23;55(34):4953-4956. doi: 10.1039/c9cc01613a.

Authors

Jingang Hu¹, Yifan Xie, Hongli Zhang, Chenlu He, Qijin Zhang, Gang Zou

Affiliation

¹ CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Science and Technology in Anhui Province, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China. gangzou@ustc.edu.cn.

PMID: 30957827
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc01613a

Abstract

Herein, we propose a novel circularly polarized light (CPL) triggered asymmetric self-assembly strategy to controllably construct chiral supramolecular assemblies from achiral porphyrin derivatives.