ABSTRACT

Chirality-transferring events between molecules are important in wide areas of supramolecular chemistry dealing with the design of asymmetric catalysts,1,2 memory devices,3-5 and sensors.6-20 Chirality generates diversity in molecular structures when it interacts with other chiralities to yield two structures with different energies (diastereomers). In a case where one of two chiral units is a racemic pair of enantiomers that exist in equilibrium (dynamic chirality), the other chiral unit perturbs the equilibrium to prefer a particular enantiomer through the formation of a complex.