Two novel optically active crown ethers (7) and (14) incorporating helicene molecular frameworks were prepared, and their chiral recognition properties were examined to show that (M)-(–)-(7) and (M)-(–)-(14) had opposite chiral recognition for the transport of methyl phenylglycinate or 1-phenylethylamine.
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Nakazaki et al. (1983) studied this question.