非手性的酞菁铜分子在Bi(111)表面上的手性特征

利用低温扫描隧道显微镜（LT-STM）研究了酞菁铜（CuPc）分子在Bi（111）表面上的吸附和手性自组装结构。由于较弱的分子-衬底相互作用,我们发现在液氮温度（78 K）下吸附在Bi（111）表面上的单个CuPc分子围绕着分子中心发生旋转,直到遇到其他分子形成团簇为止。随着分子覆盖度的增加,CuPc分子形成了自组装分子单层。高分辨STM图表明,非手性的CuPc分子出现了手性特征：两个相对的酞菁基团发生了弯曲。当覆盖度超过一个分子层,酞菁铜分子的吸附取向由“平躺”转变到“站立”姿态。我们认为,酞菁铜分子的手性起源是由两种因素共同导致的结果：一种是分子-衬底之间的非对称电荷转移,另一种是相邻分子间的非对称性的范德华力作用。     

表界面分子吸附、组装与反应的电化学STM研究

电化学扫描隧道显微镜（electrochemical scanning tunneling microscopy：ECSTM）是用于化学以及表界面科学研究的重要新技术之一。它将电化学与STM技术相结合,能够工作于溶液和大气环境中,可以得到固体表面及表面吸附物质的原子／分子级分辨率的图像。本文简要介绍了电化学STM技术及其在表界面分子吸附、组装和反应研究中的应用。     

BIC和HA体系的氢键驱动的HOPG表面手性自组装分子动力学模拟

5-（苄氧基）-间苯二甲酸衍生物（BIC）与庚醇（HA）分子在高定向热解石墨（HOPG）表面吸附,通过氢键等弱相互作用会形成具有手性特征的二维网络结构。对该过程进行分子动力学模拟,通过几何结构、能量、氢键数目、氢键键长、氢键键角等特征性参数的定量分析,并与实验结果比照,进行氢键与手性自组装结构的形成趋势和稳定性的相关性研究。     

金属配合物分子纳米结构构筑与调控的STM研究进展

金属配合物分子具有结构多样且可控以及功能丰富等特点,在催化、传感、分子识别、纳米器件等领域得到广泛应用, 对金属配合物分子的研究已是分子科学研究中的热点之一.同时, 利用配合物分子构筑表面分子纳米结构以及对配合物单分子性质的研究也日趋活跃. 近年来, 本研究组发展了配合物分子在固体表面的自组装技术, 并结合扫描隧道显微技术(STM)开展了一系列有关金属配合物分子表面纳米结构的研究工作, 在固体表面成功实现了对配体、配合物分子的高分辨STM成像、原位配合以及分子识别, 设计和构筑了多种功能配合物分子纳米结构,并系统研究了结构形成规律. 本文以本研究组近年来有关金属配合物分子组装的研究结果为主, 结合国内外相关研究小组的研究结果,综述有关金属配合物分子纳米结构的构筑与调控的STM研究进展, 介绍该类分子在固体表面的组装和分散规律, 为表面分子纳米结构的构筑和调控提供理论和实验基础.     

基于天然小分子化合物的超分子手性自组装

超分子手性普遍存在于自然界和生命体内,可通过分子在非共价键作用下有序排列形成,对生命科学、药物化学及材料科学的发展起着重要的作用。天然产物来源广泛,具有独特的立体结构和多手性中心,由于其分子手性可以在组装过程中随着分子的有序堆积得到传递和放大,形成超分子手性结构,因此是一类优良的超分子手性构筑基元。研究天然产物的手性自组装,不仅可以拓展其在超分子化学中的应用,还能深化人们对自然界和生命体中手性现象的理解。本文总结了近年来甾体、三萜、氨基酸、糖等天然产物小分子化合物在超分子手性自组装方面的研究进展及其未来的发展前景。     

手性杯芳烃及其超分子手性

杯芳烃是由苯酚单元通过亚甲基连接而成的空腔型分子,具有衍生位点多,构象丰富等特点,被称为第三代主体分子。在分子层次,依手性因素的结构特点不同,可将手性杯芳烃分为具有手性亚单元的杯芳烃、固有手性杯芳烃和桥手性杯芳烃。在超分子层次,杯芳烃自身或杯芳烃与其他分子或离子在溶液中、晶态中或二维表面可通过非共价键力形成多种拓扑结构的纳米手性聚集体。研究手性杯芳烃和基于杯芳烃的超分子手性组装体的合成、结构和性能,不仅在理解手性起源、手性结构等方面具有理论意义,而且有望获得以分子识别为基础的手性传感器、手性催化剂、手性分离材料、手性载体和手性纳米材料。本文综述近十年来有代表性的分子手性杯芳烃和以杯芳烃为组分的超分子手性聚集体的设计、合成、结构和功能。着重展示杯芳烃骨架在形成新颖分子手性和超分子手性上的优势,以及杯芳烃单元在实现特定功能如手性识别时发挥的作用。相信随着杯芳烃合成技术和杯芳烃超分子设计的发展,必将进一步发挥杯芳烃的结构优势,涌现出更多性能优异的手性杯芳烃功能分子和超分子手性杯芳烃功能材料。     

介孔二氧化硅对映选择性吸附的手性印迹调控

使用手性阴离子表面活性剂作为超分子模板, 采用共结构导向法制备手性介孔二氧化硅(CMS), 并运用圆二色谱(CD)对CMS对映选择性吸附结果进行检测, 比较了有无共结构导向剂(CSDA)在介孔表面的排列对吸附选择性的影响. 结果表明, 当使用构型相反的手性超分子模板剂对原合成CMS材料的介孔内表面进行修饰时, 可诱导结构共导向剂N?三甲氧基硅基丙基?N, N, N?三甲基氯化铵(TMAPS)发生手性相反的排列进而导致完全相反的对映选择性吸附. 实验证明此方法合成的CMS的对映选择性吸附及分离能力主要是由修饰在介孔表面的TMAPS螺旋排列形成的手性印迹所导致. 此手性超分子模板诱导TMAPS手性印迹的策略具有一定的普适性, 可对原合成介孔材料对映选择性吸附进行原位调控, 对于拓展其在立体选择性识别、 不对称催化及药物输送等方面的应用具有一定的指导意义.     

多肽超分子手性自组装与应用

多肽分子作为一类重要的生物手性小分子,能够通过分子自组装形成包括纳米螺旋、纳米管、手性凝胶等在内的有着独特生物效应和光学活性的手性纳米材料。这类材料具有易于功能化修饰的优点,在化学、生物、医药、材料科学等领域有着广泛应用,成功对多肽手性自组装结构进行精准多级调控,是进一步实现其功能化应用的基础。本文重点介绍了多肽分子氨基酸序列组成与构型等内部因素,以及溶液pH、溶剂、添加剂等外界因素对多肽分子手性自组装行为的影响,并归纳得出其关键作用机制;同时,还介绍了多肽手性自组装材料在手性催化、手性检测、模板合成、手性光学等领域的应用。     

超分子凝胶的手性功能应用:手性分子识别与不对称催化

超分子凝胶通过形成三维空间网络结构将溶剂液体相固定化,是一类重要的软物质材料。由于超分子凝胶能快速形成,自组装形成的纳米结构均一、可调,且可大规模制备,因此成为超分子化学、纳米技术以及材料科学研究的重要研究方向之一,并在诸多领域得到广泛的功能研究和应用拓展,如在材料模板、光电开关、药物释放、分子识别和超分子催化等方面已有大量研究报道。由于超分子凝胶具有固-液相可逆转变、可控组装等特性,成为了超分子手性和分子手性研究的重要载体。近年来超分子凝胶在超分子手性催化、手性分子识别等方面取得了一系列重要突破,为超分子凝胶功能应用开辟了新的空间,为手性科学研究提供了新的手段和方法。     

超分子手性组装体的构建与应用

超分子手性组装体通常由多种非共价相互作用协同驱动形成,是一类具有独特手性限域微环境的软物质,对材料工程、生命科学、光学器件、催化合成等领域的发展具有重要作用.其主要构建方法分为三种;手性基元组装、手性因素诱导非手性基元组装、非手性基元对称性破缺组装.通过分析近年来的研究成果,归纳了利用这三种方法构建超分子手性组装体的一...     

Construction of Chiroptical Switch on Silica Nanoparticle Surface via Chiral Self-assembly of Side-chain Azobenzene-containing Polymer

In this contribution, we utilized surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization(SI-ATRP) to prepare organic-inorganic hybrid core/shell silica nanoparticles(NPs), where silica particles acted as cores and polymeric shells(PAzo MA*) were attached to silica particles via covalent bond. Subsequently, chiroptical switch was successfully constructed on silica NPs surface taking advantage of supramolecular chiral selfassembly of the grafted side-chain Azo-containing polymer(PAzo MA*). We foun...     

Chirality in Dynamic Supramolecular Nanotubes Induced by a Chiral Solvent

Amplification of chirality has been reported in polymeric systems. It has also been shown that related effects can occur in polymer‐like dynamic supramolecular aggregates, if a subtle balance between noncovalent interactions allows the coupling between a chiral information and a cooperative aggregation process. In this context, we report a strong majority‐rules effect in the formation of chiral dynamic nanotubes from chiral bisurea monomers. Furthermore, similar helical nanotubes (with the same circular dichroism signature) can be obtained from racemic monomers in a chiral solvent. Competition experiments reveal the relative strength of the helical bias induced by the chiral monomer or by the chiral solvent. The nanotube handedness is imposed by the monomer chirality, whatever the solvent chirality. However, the chirality of the solvent has a significant effect on the degree of chiral induction.     

A Green and Wide-Scope Approach for Chiroptical Sensing of Organic Molecules through Biomimetic Recognition in Water

Optical chirality sensing has attracted a lot of interest due to its potential in high-throughput screening in chirality analysis. A molecular sensor is required to convert the chirality of analytes into optical signals. Although many molecular sensors have been reported, sensors with wide substrate scope remain to be developed. Herein, we report that the amide naphthotube-based chirality sensors have an unprecedented wide scope for chiroptical sensing of organic molecules. The substrates include, but are not limited to common organic products in asymmetric catalysis, chiral molecules with inert groups or remote functional groups from their chiral centers, natural products and their derivatives, and chiral drugs. The effective chirality sensing is based on biomimetic recognition in water and on effective chirality transfer through guest-induced formation of a chiral conformation of the sensors. Furthermore, the sensors can be used in real-time monitoring on reaction kinetics in water and in determining absolute configurations and ee values of the products in asymmetric catalysis.     

Chiral assemblies of achiral rigid-flexible molecules at the air/water interface induced by silver(I) coordination

Chiral films are obtained from achiral rigid-flexible molecules. Due to hydrogen bonding and steric constraints, these molecules can self-assemble into chiral assemblies at the air/water interface upon compression. When the molecules are spread on a subphase containing AgNO(3), they form a stable monolayer through coordination with Ag(I) ions, as confirmed by surface pressure-area isotherms, UV/Vis and FTIR spectroscopy, and AFM. More interestingly, macroscopic chirality was detected in the Ag(I)-coordinated films by circular dichroism measurements. The formation mechanisms of the two kinds of chiral films are briefly discussed.     

Spontaneous Mirror‐Symmetry Breaking in Isotropic Liquid Phases of Photoisomerizable Achiral Molecules

Spontaneous mirror‐symmetry breaking is of fundamental importance in science as it contributes to the development of chiral superstructures and new materials and has a major impact on the discussion around the emergence of uniform chirality in biological systems. Herein we report chirality synchronization, leading to spontaneous chiral conglomerate formation in isotropic liquids of achiral and photoisomerizable azobenzene‐based rod‐like molecules. The position of fluorine substituents at the aromatic core is found to have a significant effect on the stability and the temperature range of these chiral liquids. Moreover, these liquid conglomerates occur in a new phase sequence adjacent to a 3D tetragonal mesophase.     

Spontaneous transmission of chirality through multiple length scales

The hierarchical transfer of chirality in nature, from the nano‐, to meso‐, to macroscopic length scales, is very complex, and as of yet, not well understood. The advent of scanning probes has allowed chirality to be monitored at the single molecule or monolayer level and has opened up the possibility to track enantiospecific interactions and chiral self‐assembly with molecular‐scale detail. This paper describes the self‐assembly of a simple, model molecule (naphtho[2,3‐a]pyrene) that is achiral in the gas phase, but becomes chiral when adsorbed on a surface. This polyaromatic hydrocarbon forms a stable and reversibly ordered system on Cu(111) in which the transmission of chirality from single surface‐bound molecules to complex 2D chiral architectures can be monitored as a function of molecular packing density and surface temperature. In addition to the point chirality of the surface‐bound molecule, the unit cell of the molecular domains was also found to be chiral due to the incommensurate alignment of the molecular rows with respect to the underlying metal lattice. These molecular domains always aggregated in groups of three, all of the same chirality, but with different rotational orientations, forming homochiral “tri‐lobe” ensembles. At a larger length scale, these tri‐lobe ensembles associated with nearest‐neighbor tri‐lobe units of opposite chirality at lower packing densities before forming an extended array of homochiral tri‐lobe ensembles at higher converges. This system displayed chirality at a variety of size scales from the molecular (≈1 nm) and domain (≈5 nm) to the tri‐lobe ensemble (≈10 nm) and extended array (>25 nm) levels. The chirality of the tri‐lobe ensembles dictated how the overall surface packing occurred and both homo‐ and heterochiral arrays could be reproducibly and reversibly formed and interchanged as a function of surface coverage. Finally, these chirally templated surfaces displayed remarkable enantiospecificity for naphtho[2,3‐a]pyrene molecules adsorbed in the second layer. Given its simplicity, reversibility, and rich degree of order, this system represents an ideal test bed for the investigation of symmetry breaking and the hierarchical transmission of chirality through multiple length scales.     

Methods of studies on quantitative structure–activity relationships for chiral compounds

Chiral compounds are very important in drug development, organic synthesis, materials science, toxicology, or environmental chemistry. Therefore, for creating new drugs, several methods have been suggested in recent years. In several laboratories in the world, some new methods for the derivations of the parameters were constructed and used for studies on quantitative structure–activity/property relationships of chiral molecules. The algorithms reviewed in this paper involve Zargeb group chiral indices, chiral molecular connectivity index, chiral topological charge index, chiral A_m index, chiral indices based on the matrixes, chiral indices based on chiral product, conformation‐independent chirality code, conformation‐dependent chirality code, quantitative two‐dimensional chirality degrees of benzenoids, and so on. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Pillararene Host–Guest Complexation Induced Chirality Amplification: A New Way to Detect Cryptochiral Compounds

The contradiction between the rising demands of optical chirality sensing and the failure in chiral detection of cryptochiral compounds encourages researchers to find new methods for chirality amplification. Inspired by planar chirality and the host–guest recognition of pillararenes, we establish a new concept for amplifying CD signals of cryptochiral molecules by pillararene host–guest complexation induced chirality amplification. The planar chirality of pillararenes is induced and stabilized in the presence of the chiral guest, which makes the cryptochiral molecule detectable by CD spectroscopy. Several chiral guests are selected in these experiments and the mechanism of chiral amplification is studied with a non-rotatable pillararene derivative and density functional theory calculations. We believe this work affords deeper understanding of chirality and provides a new perspective for chiral sensing.     

手性配体在钯催化不对称碳氢键活化反应中的应用

目前,手性配体辅助钯催化的区域和对映选择性碳氢键活化是过渡金属催化的前沿领域.在过去的十年中,它作为一种越来越重要的合成工具,用于合成含有各种不对称元素(中心手性、轴手性和平面手性)的手性分子,也是快速构建各种碳碳键和碳杂原子键的最有效方法之一.本文介绍了一些典型手性配体在钯催化不对称sp2和sp3碳氢键活化/官能团化...