Yoshihisa Inoue

TL;DR: The photochirogenic behavior of the nanosponges incorporating β- or γ-cyclodextrin was significantly different from that reported for the conventional sensitizer-appended monomeric cyclodextrins, affording chiral (E)-cyclooctene and (E,Z)- cyclooctadiene in enantiomeric excesses critically dependent on the solution pH and solvent composition employed.

TL;DR: The enantiodifferentiating [4+4] photocyclodimerization of anthracenecarboxylic acid mediated by native, mono- and di-3,6-anhydroγ-cyclodextrins was investigated in both aqueous solution and solid-state as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The present strategy based on the higher-order hydrogen-bonding motif, which is potentially applicable to a variety of carboxylic acids and β-aminoalcohols, is not only conceptually new and expandable to other (photo)chirogenic and sensing systems but also may serve as a versatile tool for achieving photochemical asymmetric amplification and constructing chiral functional supramolecular architectures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors applied dynamic CD and 1H NMR spectroscopies for studying the phenomenon of chirality inversion in the supramolecular system consisting of bis(Zn porphyrin) and (R)-amine upon stepwise titration with (S)-amine.

TL;DR: Photoisomerization of encapsulated Z-enecarbamates within the hydrophobic chiral cavities of gamma-CD showed higher diastereoselectivities in the photoproducts than those obtained in solution.