Chirality reversal, enhancement and transfer by pH-adjusted surfactant assembly

Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Dec 18;56(97):15345-15348. doi: 10.1039/d0cc07008d. Epub 2020 Nov 24.

Abstract

The controllable chirality reversal and enhancement at a supramolecular level is crucial for the synthesis and applications of circularly active materials, which has been achieved by a pH-adjusted amphiphilic chiral surfactant assembly approach, and reveals the relationship between the chirality behavior and its assembly morphology in a non-covalent interaction regime and its ability to transfer chirality from chiral molecules to achiral ones under appropriate conditions.