Chirality in Porous Functional Materials

Recently crystalline porous functional materials have specifically captured the scientist’s attention, because of their high surface area coupled with many unique chemical and physical properties. These frameworks can be efficiently tailored to induce chirality for asymmetric catalysis and enantiomeric separation. Chirality can be introduced either through bottom up assembly or by post-synthetic modification. Compared to the traditional chiral catalysts, they are highly stereo-selective, reproducible and environmentally benign. They also have a great potential to be used as asymmetric photo-catalysts with the combination of photoactive group and chiral center in to one molecular architecture, providing the advantages of atomically economic structure design. On account of their high stability, large number of active sites, permanent porosity, easy recovery and reuse, they can be considered as excellent candidates to fabricate efficient and economical green chiral catalysts of com-mercial interest.