Hierarchical Structure of Brucine Inclusion Crystals with Neutral Guest Molecules: Chiral Tapes and their Bundles.

Brucine inclusion crystals with neutral guest molecules exhibit guest-dependent polymorphism due to a hierarchical structure. Chiral brucine molecules are regarded as a primary structure and assemble to form a chiral tape with a 2 1 axis as a common secondary structure. Such tapes meet together in various modes to constitute different bundles as a tertiary structure. The bundle modes are theoretically classified into eight types, which were screened by alteration of guest compounds in the volume range from 39 to 150 Å 3 . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]