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Sergeants‐and‐Soldiers Principle in Chiral Columnar Stacks of Disc‐Shaped Molecules with C 3 Symmetry
Author(s) -
Palmans Anja R. A.,
Vekemans Jef A. J. M.,
Havinga Edsko E.,
Meijer E. W.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.199726481
Subject(s) - chirality (physics) , molecule , symmetry (geometry) , chemical physics , solvation , chiral symmetry , materials science , crystallography , molecular physics , condensed matter physics , nanotechnology , physics , chemistry , quantum mechanics , geometry , mathematics , nambu–jona lasinio model , quark
Extremely effective cooperative effects operate during the formation of chiral stacks of C 3 ‐symmetrical molecules in alkane solvents (a molecule is depicted on the right). The sergeants‐and‐soldiers principles as well as chiral solvation lead to a preferred helical sense in the columnar aggregates. The amplification of chirality in dynamic systems shows the precision in aggregation.