New nonracemic monemeric and dimeric quaternary ammonium salts have been synthesized by the reaction of commercially available quinine with phenanthrene derivatives and fully characterized by IR, NMR spectroscopy and Xray crystallographic analysis.
Keywords: Phenanthrene, photocyclization, quinine, quaternary ammonium salts, bromomethylphenan-threne, bromomethy-Linkers, Cinchona, alkaloids, moieties