Chiral cavities with amino acid derived ligands and their interactions with chiral and achiral guests

Abstract

In this thesis we have attempted to explore the synthesis of small molecular weight complexes having guest binding site within a cavity During the course we have explored two different sets of amino acid derived ligands Figure 1 and systematically synthesized number of Cu II and Ni II complexes via two different approaches were we would able to form cavity capable of binding external guest either through metal coordination or H bonding We have used amino acid derivative ligands as it is t