About Per-Ola Norrby
Former professor in organic synthesis at University of Gothenburg. Since 2014 at AstraZeneca Gothenburg. Broadly interested in all aspects of reactivity. Current research spans biopharmacy to C-H activation and asymmetric catalysis
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Interesting, and I agree that "atropisomer" does not describe this behavior, but how about planar chirality? This looks very much like the behavior you see in planar chiral cyclophanes, such as the chiral ligand Phanephos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phanephos). We should not introduce new terms if there are existing terms that could be made to cover the new observations.
I guess it was obvious from my comment that I did not scrutinize the paper, I commented on the post here. Just one more point: as with all planar chirality, it specifies one chiral element. Since you also have plenty of stereogenic centers in there with defined stereochemistry, the additional chiral element make these diastereomers. This is the same as for other planar chiral molecules with additional stereogenic centers, such as Josiphos. I'm sure you know this, but to clarify to other readers of the comments.
Interesting, and I agree that "atropisomer" does not describe this behavior, but how about planar chirality? This looks very much like the behavior you see in planar chiral cyclophanes, such as the chiral ligand Phanephos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phanephos). We should not introduce new terms if there are existing terms that could be made to cover the new observations.