One-step synthesis of chiral carbon quantum dots and their enantioselective recognition

By Yalin Zhang, Lulu Hu, Yue Sun, Cheng Zhu, Rongsheng Li, Naiyun Liu, Hui Huang, Yang Liu, Chengzhi Huang, Zhenhui Kang

July 28, 2017

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Title

One-step synthesis of chiral carbon quantum dots and their enantioselective recognition

Author

Yalin Zhang, Lulu Hu, Yue Sun, Cheng Zhu, Rongsheng Li, Naiyun Liu, Hui Huang, Yang Liu, Chengzhi Huang, Zhenhui Kang

Year

2016

Journal

RSC Advances

Abstract

Chiral carbon quantum dots (L-carbon quantum dots, L-CQDs; and D-carbon quantum dots, D-CQDs) were synthesized through the facile hydrothermal treatment of carbonated citric acid and L-cysteine (or D-cysteine). The chirality in L-CQDs and D-CQDs was demonstrated by circular dichroism. Both L-carbon quantum dots and D-carbon quantum dots could exhibit good enantioselective recognition ability.

Full Article

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2016/ra/c6ra12420h

Instrument

J-815

Keywords

Circular dichroism, Stereochemistry, Materials