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ArticleNature chemistry2021

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

Marcin L Ślęczkowski, Mathijs F J Mabesoone, Piotr Ślęczkowski, Anja R A Palmans, E W Meijer

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Article in Nature chemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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  15. Amplifying and Reversing the Chiral Bias in Asymmetric Photo-Polymerization Reaction.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  16. Chiral Induction of a Tetrakis(porphyrin) in Various Chiral Solvents.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2024
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5 authors.

Marcin L ŚlęczkowskiInstitute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Mathijs F J MabesooneInstitute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1314-7215
Piotr ŚlęczkowskiDepartment of Molecular Physics, Faculty of Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology, Łódź, Poland.
Anja R A PalmansInstitute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. a.palmans@tue.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7201-1548
E W MeijerInstitute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. e.w.meijer@tue.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4126-7492

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Solute-solvent interactions are key for the assembly and proper functioning of biomacromolecules and play important roles in many fields of organic and polymer chemistry. Despite numerous reports describing the effects of (chiral) solvents on helical conformations of (supramolecular) polymers, the combination of chiral solvents and chiral monomers is unexplored. Here we report diastereomeric differences in the supramolecular polymerization of enantiomers of chiral triphenylene-2,6,10-tricarboxamides in chiral chlorinated solvents. Competition between the preferences induced by the stereocentres of the assembled monomers and those present in the solvent molecules results in unforeseen temperature-dependent solvation effects. By combining experiments and mathematical modelling, we show that the observed differences between enantiomers originate from the combined additive entropic effects of stereocentres present in the monomer and in the solvent. Remarkably, copolymerizations show that the chiral solvent can bias the copolymer helicity and thereby overrule the helical preference of the monomers. Our results highlight the importance of cumulative solvation effects in supramolecular polymerizations.

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