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Synthesis of a Chiral Tube
Author(s) -
Herges Rainer,
Deichmann Markus,
Wakita Tsuneki,
Okamoto Yoshio
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200390308
Subject(s) - enantiomer , tube (container) , alkylation , phase (matter) , carbon nanotube , carbon fibers , chiral stationary phase , chirality (physics) , materials science , conjugated system , chemistry , organic chemistry , nanotechnology , catalysis , polymer , chiral symmetry , composite material , physics , composite number , particle physics , quark , nambu–jona lasinio model
“Picotubes” : A chiral tube is formed in the surprisingly clean Friedel–Crafts alkylation of a fully conjugated tubelike structure. Unlike helical carbon nanotubes synthesized at high temperatures, this chemically modified picotube is chiral by substitution. The two enantiomers were separated by chromatography on a chiral stationary phase.