A Symmetric Recognition Motif between Vicinal Diols: The Fourfold Grip in Ethylene Glycol Dimer
2016 | journal article. A publication of Göttingen
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- Authors
- Kollipost, Franz; Otto, Katharina E.; Suhm, Martin A.
- Abstract
- Ethylene glycol has a transiently chiral, asymmetric global minimum structure, but it favors a highly symmetric, achiral dimer arrangement which has not been considered or found in previous quantum-chemical studies. Complementary FTIR and Raman spectroscopy in supersonic jets allows for the detection and straightforward assignment of this four-fold hydrogen-bonded dimer, which introduces an interesting supramolecular binding motif for vicinal diols and provides a strong case for transient chirality synchronization.
- Issue Date
- 2016
- Status
- published
- Publisher
- Wiley-v C H Verlag Gmbh
- Journal
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- Organization
- Institut für Physikalische Chemie
- ISSN
- 1521-3773; 1433-7851
- Sponsor
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [SU 121/2]