Supramolecular chiroptical switches

L Zhang, HX Wang, S Li, M Liu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Chiroptical switches, whose chiral optical signals such as optical rotatory dispersion (ORD),
circular dichroism (CD) and circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) are reversibly …

Self-assembled stereomutation with supramolecular chirality inversion

G Liu, MG Humphrey, C Zhang, Y Zhao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Supramolecular chirality is involved not only in biological events such as gene
communication, replication, and enzyme catalysis but also in artificial self-assembly systems …

Supramolecular chiral polymeric aggregates: Construction and applications

G Zhang, X Cheng, Y Wang, W Zhang - Aggregate, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Inspired by the mystery of natural homochirality, the design and construction of artificial
chiral systems with special functions including mechanics, chiroptical devices, and chiral …

Helical polymers for biological and medical applications

T Leigh, P Fernandez-Trillo - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Helices are the most prevalent secondary structure in biomolecules and play vital roles in
their activity. Chemists have been fascinated with mimicking this molecular conformation …

Competition between chiral solvents and chiral monomers in the helical bias of supramolecular polymers

ML Ślęczkowski, MFJ Mabesoone, P Ślęczkowski… - Nature Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Solute–solvent interactions are key for the assembly and proper functioning of
biomacromolecules and play important roles in many fields of organic and polymer …

(Nano) mechanical motion triggered by metal coordination: from functional devices to networked multicomponent catalytic machinery

A Goswami, S Saha, PK Biswas, M Schmittel - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
A look at the elegance and efficiency of biological machines readily reveals that Nature
masters the full gamut of chemical interactions to compose masterpieces of the living world …

Lanthanides complexes–Chiral sensing of biomolecules

K Staszak, K Wieszczycka, V Marturano… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2019 - Elsevier
Thanks to their dimensional versatility and ability to form complexes, lanthanides are
increasingly employed for the chiral sensing of biomolecules. In this work two sensing …

Real-time monitoring of hierarchical self-assembly and induction of circularly polarized luminescence from achiral luminogens

J Zhang, Q Liu, W Wu, J Peng, H Zhang, F Song, B He… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Constructing artificial helical structures through hierarchical self-assembly and exploring the
underlying mechanism are important, and they help gain insight from the structures …

Controlling the multiple chiroptical inversion in biphasic liquid‐crystalline polymers

X Cheng, T Miao, Y Ma, X Zhu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While controlling the chirality and modulating the helicity is a challenging task, it attracts
great research interest for gaining a better understanding of the origin of chirality in nature …

Fluorine substitution tunes the nanofiber chirality of supramolecular hydrogels to promote cell adhesion and proliferation

H Lu, Y Zhao, S Qin, Y Zhang, J Liu, J Zhang… - Advanced Fiber …, 2023 - Springer
Fluorine atoms confer desirable biophysical, chemical, and biological properties to
peptides/proteins by participating in various intermolecular interactions with their …