Understanding benzyl alcohol aggregation by chiral modification: the pairing step

Depending on how two enantiomeric benzyl alcohol molecules meet, they either get stuck in a symmetric heterochiral dimer or they synchronize their transient chirality to reach the global minimum structure.

Chiral modification of copper exchanged zeolite-Y with cinchonidine and its application in the asymmetric Henry reaction

(−)-Cinchonidine is being encapsulated inside copper exchanged zeolite-Y and used as heterogeneous catalyst for the asymmetric Henry reaction.

Chiral modification of platinum: ab initio study of the effect of hydrogen coadsorption on stability and geometry of adsorbed cinchona alkaloids

Hydrogen coadsorption affects the orientation and stability of cinchona alkaloids used for the chiral modification of platinum and thus can influence their enantiodifferentiating ability.

From Supramolecular Chirogenic Systems towards Prospective Functional Materials

This paper presents a succinct overview of recent advances of our research groups in the field of supramolecular chirogenic systems in the solution and in the solid state and consequent progress towards various functional materials having potential applications in different areas of science and technology. The phenomenon of supramolecular chirality, which is a smart combination of supramolecular chemistry and chiral science, is demonstrated with one of the most representative structural motifs amongst existing chirogenic systems, which is based upon the ethane-bridged bis-porphyrinoids. Further progress towards various functional materials is made upon preparation of different thin-films and nanostructures using the same bis-porphyrin architecture. For more practical application of functional materials chiral modification of metal surface is carried out resulting in effective asymmetric catalyst.