Journal
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 61, Issue 40, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202209098
Keywords
Enantioselectivity; Inherently Chiral Oligomers; Microswimmers; Redox Conversion; Self-Propulsion
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- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [741251]
- Universita degli Studi di Milano
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The development of chiral catalysts is crucial in chemical science. The use of self-propelled redox active microswimmers as a replacement for macroscopic electrodes offers a new approach to electrocatalysis.
The development of chiral catalysts plays a very important role in various areas of chemical science. Heterogeneous catalysts have the general advantage of allowing a more straightforward separation from the products. One specific case of heterogeneous catalysis is electrocatalysis, being potentially a green chemistry approach. However, a typical drawback is that the redox conversion of molecules occurs only at the electrode/electrolyte interface, and not in the bulk of the electrolyte. The second limitation is that the electrodes have to be physically connected to a power supply to induce the desired reactions. To circumvent these problems, we propose here a complementary approach by replacing macroscopic electrodes with an ensemble of self-propelled redox active microswimmers. They move autonomously in solution while transforming simultaneously a prochiral starting compound into a specific enantiomer with a very high enantiomeric excess, accompanied by a significantly increased production rate of the favorite enantiomer.
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