AbstractThe combination of two heterochiral bisoxazoline ligands at one metal centre has been successfully used to generate coordination copolymers. The addition of a Zn metal ion to a monomer that has enantiopure C2‐symmetric bisoxazoline units placed at either end does not favour the formation of self‐aggregates. On the other hand, the use of a racemic mixture of the same ligand leads to the formation of a metallopolymeric assembly.
We report the synthesis of chiral enantiopure polytopic bridging ligands, which may lead to the formation of metallosupramolecular polymers with zinc (II) as metal linker. We show that chiral C2‐symmetric bisoxazoline ligands are useful moieties to efficiently generate heterochiral complexes and thus polymeric entities. The corresponding metallopolymers were further characterized by powder X‐ray diffraction