Synthesis of chiral molecular sieves: A 30 year journey

Abstract

Recently, my co-workers and I synthesized an enantiomerically enriched, polycryst. mol. sieve that has the STW framework topol. My journey to prep. a chiral mol. sieve began 30 years ago, and in this presentation, I will chronicle the progress made from start to finish. Over that period of time, advances in synthetic methods, characterization techniques and computer simulations have greatly advanced, and all these advances were used to design, prep. and conclusively prove that an enantiomerically enriched, polycryst. mol. sieve was indeed obtained. Addnl., I will make a few comments about what may be possible with chiral mol. sieves in the near future.

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