A photoreactive crystalline quasiracemate

Rebecca C. Grove
Steven H. Malehorn
Meghan E. Breen
Kraig A. Wheeler

Abstract

Rationally designed racemic and quasiracemic sulfonamidecinnamic acids assemble to give hydrogen-bonded dimers with coplanar alignment of neighboring olefins. The quasiracemate phase contains near inversion-related motifs with chemically distinct components forming supramolecular heterodimers that undergo asymmetric photodimerization.