Aug 2026
Structural Water-Enabled Helicity Emergence From an Asymmetric Achiral Molecule.
Helical supramolecular architectures are ubiquitous in nature yet remain challenging to construct from asymmetric achiral molecules. Here, we demonstrate that structural water acts as a symmetry-breaking and frustration-generating element in artificial self-assembly. Using an asymmetric achiral naphthalene derivative (...
Hao Kong, Zhen Wu, Bi-Jun Wang et al.
· Angewandte Chemie · 0 citations