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Assembled molecular face-rotating polyhedra to transfer chirality from two to three dimensions

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  • Xinchang Wang

    (State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University)

  • Yu Wang

    (State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
    Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Xiamen University)

  • Huayan Yang

    (State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
    Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Xiamen University)

  • Hongxun Fang

    (State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University)

  • Ruixue Chen

    (State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
    Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Xiamen University)

  • Yibin Sun

    (State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
    Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Xiamen University)

  • Nanfeng Zheng

    (State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
    Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Xiamen University)

  • Kai Tan

    (State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University)

  • Xin Lu

    (State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
    Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Xiamen University)

  • Zhongqun Tian

    (State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
    Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Xiamen University)

  • Xiaoyu Cao

    (State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
    Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Xiamen University)

Abstract

In nature, protein subunits on the capsids of many icosahedral viruses form rotational patterns, and mathematicians also incorporate asymmetric patterns into faces of polyhedra. Chemists have constructed molecular polyhedra with vacant or highly symmetric faces, but very little is known about constructing polyhedra with asymmetric faces. Here we report a strategy to embellish a C3h truxene unit with rotational patterns into the faces of an octahedron, forming chiral octahedra that exhibit the largest molar ellipticity ever reported, to the best of our knowledge. The directionalities of the facial rotations can be controlled by vertices to achieve identical rotational directionality on each face, resembling the homo-directionality of virus capsids. Investigations of the kinetics and mechanism reveal that non-covalent interaction among the faces is essential to the facial homo-directionality.

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  • Xinchang Wang & Yu Wang & Huayan Yang & Hongxun Fang & Ruixue Chen & Yibin Sun & Nanfeng Zheng & Kai Tan & Xin Lu & Zhongqun Tian & Xiaoyu Cao, 2016. "Assembled molecular face-rotating polyhedra to transfer chirality from two to three dimensions," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 7(1), pages 1-7, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:7:y:2016:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms12469
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12469
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