Main Strategies to Obtain Enantiopure MOCNs

Two types of strategy are used to obtain enantiopure MOCNs. The one employed most often consists of introducing the chiral information into the assembly ligand of the metallic ion network. The molecules most frequently used for this are binaphthol derivatives, tartrate ions, polypyridines substituted with chiral groups and amino acids. It is also possible to prefabricate a chiral building block of known configuration, the self-assembly of which leads to the desired MOCNs. 

We will distinguish between ID, 2D and 3D networks. Remember that this distinction depends on the fact that, in these networks, the metal-ligand bonds are directed in one, two or three directions in space. This evidently does not exclude the possibility of 

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