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Chiral nanotubes self-assembled from discrete non-covalent macrocycles
Many strategies have been used to construct supramolecular hollow tubes, including helical folding of
oligomers, bundling of rod-like structures, rolling-up of sheets and stacking of covalent cycles. On the
other hand, controlling chirality at the supramolecular level continues attracting much interest because
of its implications in future applications of porous systems. This review article covers the main examples
in the literature that use simple molecular structures as chiral units for precise assembly into discrete
non-covalent cyclic structures that are able to form chiral supramolecular tubular system