Preparation of Carbodiimides with One-Handed Axial Chirality

The axial chirality of carbodiimide was proposed in 1932, but the synthesis of carbodiimide with one-handed axial chirality has not been achieved because of the low barrier of racemization. This work presents a strategy to use a conformationally restrained cyclic structure for creating carbodiimides whose biases of the axial chirality (labeled as S_NCN/ R_NCN) are higher than 100:1, as determined by vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations.

Design and application of a bifunctional organocatalyst guided by electron density topological analyses

Design of a catalyst via the identification of key interactions within the transition state with quantum chemical topology.

Characterization of aggregated morphologies derived from mono- and bis-arylbenzamides – potential alpha-helix mimetics

We report here the synthesis and self-assembly studies of a family of benzamide backbone oligomers bearing various alkyl side chains (e.g., isopropyl, isobutyl, and 2-ethylpentyl), which are potential alpha-helix mimetics capable of disrupting protein–protein interactions.