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Abstract
The Pfeiffer effect concerns the change in optical activity of a solution containing a chiral substance, the environment compound, when a racemic mixture of another substance, classically a coordination complex of diimine ligands, is added to it. Several mechanisms have been proposed to account for the effect and these are discussed with respect to specific interactions leading to the observed chiral discriminations. Some new related systems involving Ru(II) complexes are reported.