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Exchange Interactions Drive Supramolecular Chiral Induction in Polyaniline
Author(s) -
Mishra Suryakant,
Kumar Anup,
Venkatesan Munuswamy,
Pigani Laura,
Pasquali Luca,
Fontanesi Claudio
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
small methods
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.66
H-Index - 46
ISSN - 2366-9608
DOI - 10.1002/smtd.202000617
Subject(s) - polyaniline , enantiopure drug , supramolecular chemistry , polymerization , materials science , conductive polymer , chirality (physics) , circular dichroism , intermolecular force , asymmetric induction , density functional theory , polymer , chemistry , computational chemistry , crystallography , organic chemistry , molecule , enantioselective synthesis , catalysis , physics , chiral symmetry breaking , quantum mechanics , quark , nambu–jona lasinio model , composite material
The focus of this paper is on the intermolecular interaction active between polyaniline (PANI) and 10‐camphorsulfonic acid (10CSA). Enantiopure 10CSA, present in the electropolymerization solution, promotes chiral induction in the supramolecular polyaniline polymer (cPANI). Tight integration of experimental data (circular dichroism, CD, near edge X‐ray absorption spectra, NEXAFS, conductive probe atomic force microscopy, CP‐AFM) and theoretical [density functional theory, (DFT)] results allows to unfold the nature of the electronic interaction between PANI and 10CSA and to shed light on the physical interactions inducing the chiral character to bulk pristine non‐chiral PANI: eventually yielding cPANI. The electropolymerization follows a “wet chemistry” method: electrochemical polymerization of aniline in the co‐presence in bulk solution of enantiopure 10‐camphorsulfonic acid (10CSA). The latter is exploited as chirality inductor. The method of integration between experimental results with ab‐initio theoretical calculations, strongly suggests that the chiral induction exerted by the CSA stems from exchange interaction between CSA and PANI.