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Inside Cover: Chiral Transcription and Retentive Helical Memory: Probing Peptide Auxiliaries Appended with Naphthalenediimides for Their One‐Dimensional Molecular Organization (Chem. Eur. J. 16/2012)
Author(s) -
Pandeeswar M.,
Avinash M. B.,
Govindaraju T.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201290061
Subject(s) - homochirality , supramolecular chemistry , chirality (physics) , peptide , conjugate , enantiomer , chemistry , stereochemistry , combinatorial chemistry , nanotechnology , materials science , physics , molecule , biochemistry , organic chemistry , mathematics , mathematical analysis , nambu–jona lasinio model , chiral symmetry breaking , quantum mechanics , quark
Homo, hetero, and achiral peptide conjugates of naphthalenediimide were designed to gain insights into nature's mysterious selection of homochirality and future chiral technological applications. Chiral induction and amplification was demonstrated by sergeants and soldiers, and majority rules methods. Homochiral conjugates resulted in hierarchical 1D supramolecular chiral assemblies and a new phenomenon coined as retentive helical memory is described. These results in principle support spontaneous deracemization and chiral amplification pathways for biological homochirality. For more details see the communication by T. Govindaraju et al. on page 4818 ff.