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CHEMISTRY-AN ASIAN JOURNAL
Volume 14, Issue 13, Pages 2172-2180Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/asia.201900460
Keywords
chirality; modulation; self-assembly; structure-activity relationships; supramolecular chemistry
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- NSFC [21644005, 21628401]
- National Program for Thousand Young Talents of China
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Supramolecular chirality, generated by the asymmetric assembly of chiral or achiral molecules, has attracted intense study owing to its potential to offer insights into natural biological structures and its crucial roles in advanced materials. The optical activity and stacking pathway of building molecules both greatly determine the chirality of the whole supramolecular structure. The flexibility of supramolecular structures makes their chirality easy to modulate through abundant means. Adjustment of the molecular structure or packing mode, or external stimuli that act like a finger gently pushing toy bricks, can greatly change the chirality of supramolecular assemblies. The dynamic regulation of chiral nanostructures on the intramolecular, intermolecular, and external levels could be regarded as the modulatory essence in numerous strategies, however, this perspective is ignored in most reviews in the literature. Herein, therefore, we focus on the ingenious dynamic modulation of chiral nanostructures by these factors. Through dynamic modulation with changes in chiroptical spectroscopy and electron microscopy, the mechanism of formation of supramolecular chirality is also elaborated.
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