Controlling Rotational Motion of Nonplanar Porphyrin Atropisomers by Metal Coordination The unpredictable rotational barriers of nonplanar porphyrin atropisomers can be combated using metal coordination to form porphyrin superstructures, selectively capturing a single atropisomer from a...

new paper out in @helvchimacta.bsky.social
😊 Great work by #SophieAMaguire 👏
on how to control #atropisomerism in #porphyrins onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... collaboration @tcddublin.bsky.social @ias-tum.bsky.social
supported by @researchireland.ie @tum.de

Using X-ray crystallography, researchers from the Shibaura Institute of Technology discovered that molecular chirality can fundamentally influence intermolecular packing forces.
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/3r48uesu
#atropisomers #atropisomerism #HalogenBond #quinolinones #thiones