Homochiral 2D Porous Covalent Organic Frameworks for Heterogeneous Asymmetric Catalysis

• Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 138; no. 38; pp. 12332 - 12335
• Main Authors: Wang, Xiuren, Han, Xing, Zhang, Jie, Wu, Xiaowei, Liu, Yan, Cui, Yong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 28.09.2016
• Subjects: aldehydes; catalysts; catalytic activity; computer simulation; enantiomers; porosity; X-ray diffraction

There have been breakthroughs in the development of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) with tunability of composition, structure, and function, but the synthesis of chiral COFs remains a great challenge. Here we report the construction of two-dimensional COFs with chiral functionalities embedded int...