Chemistry Letters, Vol.43, No.4, 512-514, 2014
Remarkable Enhancement of Stability and Helix-sense Excess of Oligo(phenylene ethynylene) Foldamers Assisted by Linking with Achiral (Metallo)salen Tethers and Their Application to Asymmetric Catalysis
Two foldamer strands, which possess chiral amide pendants but imperfect helical handedness, were linked by an achiral (metallo)salen tether, leading to a remarkable enhancement of helical stability and helix-sense excess as a result of the intramolecular hydrogen-bond networks along the entire dimeric foldamer strand; the Mn-II salen complexes catalyzed an asymmetric epoxidation reaction.