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Researchers developed chiral helical Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) that exhibit intrinsic spin polarization, a property linked to their asymmetric structural geometry. These frameworks were successfully applied to enable enantioselective electropolymerization, meaning they can selectively drive the formation of polymers with a specific handedness (chirality) through an electrochemical process. The work demonstrates that spin-polarized chiral materials can act as effective stereocontrolling agents in electrochemical synthesis, connecting spintronics principles with asymmetric chemistry.
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This research opens a new route for producing enantiomerically pure polymers and materials using electricity rather than expensive chiral catalysts, which has potential applications in pharmaceuticals, chiral sensing, and asymmetric synthesis industries.
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