• 文献标题:   Influence of Host-Guest Interaction between Chiral Selectors and Probes on the Enantioseparation Properties of Graphene Oxide Membranes
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MENG CC, ZHANG SZ, CHEN QB, LI XX, LIU HL
  • 作者关键词:   enantioseparation, graphene oxide membrane, binding affinity, density of functional theory, noncovalent interaction
  • 出版物名称:   ACS APPLIED MATERIALS INTERFACES
  • ISSN:   1944-8244 EI 1944-8252
  • 通讯作者地址:   East China Univ Sci Technol
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsami.0c00898
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

Graphene oxide (GO)-based membranes have displayed superior performances in the chiral resolution compared with conventional polymer-based and inorganic membranes. However, the effect of the host-guest interaction between chiral selectors and probes on the enantioseparation properties of GO-based membranes remains to be established. In this work, L-phenylalanine (L-Phe, as the chiral selector)-modified GO-based (L-Phe-GO) membranes were fabricated, and their enantioseparation performances toward various enantiomers, that is, D- and L-phenylalanine (D- and L-Phe), D- and L-methionine (D- and L-Met), N-acyl-D-phenylalanine (N-aryl-D-Phe) and N-acyl-L-phenylalanine (N-acyl-L-Phe), and N-aryl-D-methionine (N-acyl-D-Met) and N- acyl-L-methionine (N-acyl-L-Met), were detected. Results show that (i) L-Phe is preferential to transport aenantiomers relative to Lenantiomers; (ii) as far as aenantiomers are concerned, the D-Phe-like enantiomers move faster than D-Met-like ones through the L- Phe-GO membrane owing to their different host-guest interactions. The strength of interactions between chiral selectors and probes was further confirmed from both experimental and theoretical standpoints. In the former case, the enantioselective adsorption of L-Phe-GO nanosheets toward the aforementioned enantiomers demonstrates that L-Phe delivers a higher adsorption capacity to L-enantiomers relative to L-enantiomers, and meanwhile, D-Met-like enantiomers are better than D-Met-like enantiomers in the adsorption capacity. In the latter case, the chiral separation mechanism is clarified using the periodical density functional theory (DFT) calculation, indicating that L-Phe interacts with D-enantiomers more strongly than L-enantiomers. Especially, our calculations unveil that the difference in the interaction strength is principally dominated by the nonstereoselective interactions between chiral probes and the GO surface. Therefore, our findings suggest that the nonstereoselective weak interaction can be employed to improve the enantioselectivity of GO-based membranes.