Recent advances in novel chiral macrocyclic arenes

Abstract

Chiral macrocyclic arenes possess confined three-dimensional asymmetric cavity, electron-rich structures, chiral luminescent properties and excellent enantioselective recognition properties, which have represented a frontier and hotspot of macrocyclic chemistry and supramolecular chemistry. In recent years, there has been growing interest in the development of novel chiral macrocyclic arenes, which have found applications in various research areas. In this review, the construction, properties and functional applications in enantioselective recognition, chiral sorting and chiral luminescent materials of novel chiral macrocyclic arenes according to their chiral types including central, axial, planar, and inherent chirality are summarized. It is expected that this review will be helpful to the research of supramolecular chemistry and promote the development of synthetic chemistry, material chemistry and biochemistry.