{"title":"Chiral surface control in the Soai reaction: a DFT study of αquartz-induced enantioselective autocatalysis","authors":"Ivan I Murygin, Ilya D. Gridnev","doi":"10.1039/d5cp02751a","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Mechanism of enantioselectivity generation in theSoai reaction induced by chiral α-quartz surfaces was modeled by DFT computations. Analyzing transition states for S-and R-products formation on d-and l-quartz, revealed key stabilizing interactions including hydrogen bonding and zinc coordination with the surface. Computed mirror-symmetric energy profiles for the reactions with d-and l-quartz systems correspond to the experimentally observed handedness of the product and demonstrate how the surface chirality controls stereochemistry of the reaction.","PeriodicalId":99,"journal":{"name":"Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d5cp02751a","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Mechanism of enantioselectivity generation in theSoai reaction induced by chiral α-quartz surfaces was modeled by DFT computations. Analyzing transition states for S-and R-products formation on d-and l-quartz, revealed key stabilizing interactions including hydrogen bonding and zinc coordination with the surface. Computed mirror-symmetric energy profiles for the reactions with d-and l-quartz systems correspond to the experimentally observed handedness of the product and demonstrate how the surface chirality controls stereochemistry of the reaction.
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