Chirality and Spatial Organization of Multi-Porphyrinoids
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 442
Special Issue Editors
Interests: porphyrins; peptides; oligonucleotides; self-assembling; molecular recognition; chirality
Interests: sensors; induced chirality; chirality transfer; supramolecular chirality; chiral chromophores; circular dichroism; chiral materials and surfaces
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Interests: porphyrins; peptides; oligonucleotides; self-assembling; molecular recognition; chirality
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chirality is a fundamental property of the universe that has an enormous impact on different organic/inorganic materials, living organisms, and human beings. The basic principle of chirality is existence of an object in two mirror image forms that are not superimposable. This phenomenon is widely seen in various branches of chemistry at scales ranging from single molecules to complex supramolecular and nano-scaled assemblies. Static chirality is generally associated with a single molecule or group of molecules belonging to the Cn or Dn point groups, with the simplest example of sp3 carbon atom bonded to four different substituents. The dynamic processes of chirality generation, modulation, transfer, amplification, etc., are termed chirogenesis. Such processes represent a fast-growing and interdisciplinary field of research and are widely seen either in many natural systems (such as the DNA double helix, the secondary alpha-helix structure of proteins, lipid membranes, saccharides, heme proteins, and other biological molecular objects) or in various artificial molecular architectures that are of prime importance for both fundamental science and a number of practical applications (in areas such as pharmacology, agrochemistry, perfumery, food industry, materials and polymer sciences, enantioselective catalysis, nonlinear optics, nanoscience and nanotechnology, molecular devices, chemical sensors, and others).
Porphyrinoid-based chromophoric systems are well suited for studying various processes related to chirality and chirogenesis, owing to their spectral and physicochemical properties, easy handling, versatile modification, great biological importance, wide applicability, as well as superior propensity to form various supramolecular assemblies. Among these systems, multi-porphyrinoids are of particular interest due to their superior ability to amplify and control chirogenic processes via specific spatial organization.
This Special Issue will cover the wide range of synthetic, structural, and photochemical factors influencing the chirality and spatial organization of multi-porphyrinoids.
Dr. Regis Rein
Prof. Dr. Victor Borovkov
Dr. Nathalie Solladié
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multi-porphyrinoids
- chirality
- chirogenesis
- spatial organization
- synthesis
- structure
- conformation
- photochemical properties
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