Chiral induction in covalent organic frameworks

Controlling chirality and function in metal organic frameworks has been an achievement, but very difficult to carry out in covalent organic frameworks. Here the authors show chiral covalent organic frameworks that are crystallized from achiral precursors by chiral catalytic induction.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xing Han, Jie Zhang, Jinjing Huang, Xiaowei Wu, Daqiang Yuan, Yan Liu, Yong Cui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03689-9