{"title":"Enantioselective Synthesis of Homochiral Hierarchical Nd8Fe3-Oxo Cluster from Racemic Nd9Fe2-Oxo Cluster","authors":"Ying Lu, Xiu-Xia Ding, Ju-Suo Zhong, Zhan-Guo Jiang* and Cai-Hong Zhan*, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c01635","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p >Enantioselective synthesis of homochiral rare earth clusters is still a great challenge. In this work, we developed an efficient “cluster to cluster” approach, that is, a pair of enantiomerical <i>R</i>/<i>S</i>-{Nd<sub>8</sub>Fe<sub>3</sub>}-oxo clusters were successfully obtained from the presynthesized racemic {Nd<sub>9</sub>Fe<sub>2</sub>}-oxo cluster. <i>R</i>/<i>S</i>-hydrobenzoin ligands trigger the transformation of the pristine clusters by an SN<sub>2</sub>-like mechanism. Compared to the pristine cluster with an achiral core, the new cluster exhibits hierarchical chirality, from ligand chirality to interface chirality, then to helix chirality, and finally to supramolecular double helix chirality. The spectral experiments monitored the transformation and confirmed distinctly structure-related optical activity. The enantiomeric pure cluster also exhibits a potential asymmetric catalytic activity.</p>","PeriodicalId":40,"journal":{"name":"Inorganic Chemistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Inorganic Chemistry","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c01635","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, INORGANIC & NUCLEAR","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Enantioselective synthesis of homochiral rare earth clusters is still a great challenge. In this work, we developed an efficient “cluster to cluster” approach, that is, a pair of enantiomerical R/S-{Nd8Fe3}-oxo clusters were successfully obtained from the presynthesized racemic {Nd9Fe2}-oxo cluster. R/S-hydrobenzoin ligands trigger the transformation of the pristine clusters by an SN2-like mechanism. Compared to the pristine cluster with an achiral core, the new cluster exhibits hierarchical chirality, from ligand chirality to interface chirality, then to helix chirality, and finally to supramolecular double helix chirality. The spectral experiments monitored the transformation and confirmed distinctly structure-related optical activity. The enantiomeric pure cluster also exhibits a potential asymmetric catalytic activity.
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Inorganic Chemistry publishes fundamental studies in all phases of inorganic chemistry. Coverage includes experimental and theoretical reports on quantitative studies of structure and thermodynamics, kinetics, mechanisms of inorganic reactions, bioinorganic chemistry, and relevant aspects of organometallic chemistry, solid-state phenomena, and chemical bonding theory. Emphasis is placed on the synthesis, structure, thermodynamics, reactivity, spectroscopy, and bonding properties of significant new and known compounds.