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Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Jun 13;53(48):6524-6527. doi: 10.1039/c7cc01169e.

Enantioselective incorporation of dicarboxylate guests by octacalcium phosphate.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Taishi Yokoi, Shingo Machida, Yoshiyuki Sugahara, Masami Hashimoto, Satoshi Kitaoka

Affiliations

  1. Materials Research and Development Laboratory, Japan Fine Ceramics Center, 2-4-1, Mutsuno, Atsuta-ku, Nagoya 456-8587, Japan. [email protected].

PMID: 28573292 DOI: 10.1039/c7cc01169e

Abstract

Enantioselectivity by octacalcium phosphate (OCP) is revealed through the incorporation of (S)-(-)-methylsuccinic acid (MeSuc) into its crystal lattice, with hardly any (R)-(+)-MeSuc incorporated. This phenomenon clearly indicates that OCP recognizes the steric structures of guest molecules, extending chiral recognition in inorganic materials to three-dimensional crystal growth.

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