Chemistry Letters, Vol.30, No.12, 1330-1331, 2001
Chiral recognition by multicenter single proton hydrogen bonding of trifluorolactates
An X-ray crystallographic analysis of optically pure isopropyl trifluorolactate suggested possible seven centered hydrogen bondings with chirality. The hydroxy group was surrounded by three intra- and three intermolecular proton acceptors within reasonable hydrogen bonding distances.