{"id":212753,"date":"2025-04-29T13:06:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T18:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/compact-catenane-with-tunable-mechanical-chirality-created-from-achiral-rings"},"modified":"2025-04-29T13:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T18:06:51","slug":"compact-catenane-with-tunable-mechanical-chirality-created-from-achiral-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/compact-catenane-with-tunable-mechanical-chirality-created-from-achiral-rings","title":{"rendered":"Compact catenane with tunable mechanical chirality created from achiral rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/compact-catenane-with-tunable-mechanical-chirality-created-from-achiral-rings2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catenanes are organic compounds with ring-like molecules that are mechanically interlocked. The mechanical locking system in such molecules is so robust that they can only be disentangled via covalent bond cleavage. A recent study has presented a new strategy for controlling the chirality\u2014the property where a molecule has non-superimposable mirror images\u2014of mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) like catenanes, without changing its overall shape via non-covalent means.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers successfully demonstrated the synthesis of a compact catenane, BPHC<sup>4+<\/sup> with tunable mechanical chirality, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44160-025-00781-z\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> in Nature Synthesis.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike traditional chirality that originates from covalent bonds forming asymmetric centers, in MIMs the chirality can arise from the way parts of the molecule are mechanically linked and not the chirality of the individual rings that are interlocked together. This is known as mechanical chirality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catenanes are organic compounds with ring-like molecules that are mechanically interlocked. The mechanical locking system in such molecules is so robust that they can only be disentangled via covalent bond cleavage. A recent study has presented a new strategy for controlling the chirality\u2014the property where a molecule has non-superimposable mirror images\u2014of mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}