Synthesis, Solid-State Structures, and Molecular Recognition of Chiral Molecular Tweezer and Related Structures Based on a Rigid Bis-Naphthalene Cleft

Zhenfeng He; Xin Yang; Wei Jiang

doi:10.1021/acs.orglett.5b01871

Synthesis, Solid-State Structures, and Molecular Recognition of Chiral Molecular Tweezer and Related Structures Based on a Rigid Bis-Naphthalene Cleft

Org Lett. 2015 Aug 7;17(15):3880-3. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b01871. Epub 2015 Jul 21.

Authors

Zhenfeng He^{1

2}, Xin Yang¹, Wei Jiang¹

Affiliations

¹ †Department of Chemistry, South University of Science and Technology of China, No. 1088 Xueyuan Boulevard, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, 518055, P. R. China.
² ‡School of Chemical Engineering and Environment, North University of China, No. 3 Xueyuan Road, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030051, P. R. China.

PMID: 26196064
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b01871

Abstract

The rigid and nonchiral bis-naphthalene cleft was used for the first time as a scaffold to build a chiral molecular tweezer. The molecular tweezer and its related compounds have been synthesized and carefully characterized by X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy. Their solid-state structures and molecular recognition properties have also been studied.