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Cover Picture: Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers in Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal Fields (Isr. J. Chem. 10/2011)
Author(s) -
Matsushita Satoshi,
Akagi Kazuo
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
israel journal of chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.908
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1869-5868
pISSN - 0021-2148
DOI - 10.1002/ijch.201190015
Subject(s) - liquid crystal , polyacetylene , chemistry , conjugated system , polymerization , polymer , mesogen , acetylene , cover (algebra) , polymer chemistry , chemical physics , polymer science , organic chemistry , liquid crystalline , condensed matter physics , physics , mechanical engineering , engineering
The cover illustration shows a schematic representation of the mechanism for acetylene polymerization in nematic liquid crystals. The helical polyacetylene with left‐handed screw direction grows starting from the catalytic species in the right‐handed N*‐LC. See Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers in Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal Fields by Matsushita and Akagi, p. 1075 in this issue.