Asymmetric construction of tetrahedral chiral zinc with high configurational stability and catalytic activity

Unlike traditional chiral metal complexes, which typically contain chiral ligands, in chiral-at-metal complexes chirality originates from a stereogenic metal center bound to achiral ligands. Herein, the authors use an unsymmetric tridentate ligand to construct a Werner-type tetrahedral chiral-at-zin...

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Main Authors: Kenichi Endo, Yuanfei Liu, Hitoshi Ube, Koichi Nagata, Mitsuhiko Shionoya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20074-7