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Scientists found new way to synthesize chiral tetraarylmethanes – EurekAlert
A group of scientists at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have achieved a catalytic asymmetric synthesis of tetraarylmethanes by chiral…
IMAGE: Chiral Tetraarylmethanes (CTAMs)
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Credit: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The research was published on the journal Nature Catalysis on December 14, 2020.
A strong bias towards linear and disc-shaped molecules has long been observed in drug molecules. In contrast, spherical molecules have been utilized on far fewer occasions, due to the lack of efficient access to the latter chemical space. Specifically, efficient strategies to synthesize tetraarylmethanes, a…
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