An enantiopure cyclophane-type imidazole with no central but planar chirality

Yasuhiro Ishida; Eriko Iwasa; Yuki Matsuoka; Hiroyuki Miyauchi; Kazuhiko Saigo

doi:10.1039/b904059e

An enantiopure cyclophane-type imidazole with no central but planar chirality

Chem Commun (Camb). 2009 Jun 21:(23):3401-3. doi: 10.1039/b904059e. Epub 2009 Apr 27.

Authors

Yasuhiro Ishida¹, Eriko Iwasa, Yuki Matsuoka, Hiroyuki Miyauchi, Kazuhiko Saigo

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8656, Tokyo, Japan. ishida@chiral.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

PMID: 19503884
DOI: 10.1039/b904059e

Abstract

An enantiopure cyclophane-type imidazole with planar chirality was synthesized, which was expected to serve as a useful component for the development of novel chiral molecular devices, such as ligands, organocatalysts, and receptors.