Origin of helix in achiral banana-shaped molecular systems

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 6455-6463

  Sekine, Tomoko ^a   Niori, Teruki ^a   Sone, Masato ^a   Watanabe, Junji ^a   Choi, Suk Won ^a   Takanishi, Yoichi ^a   Takezoe, Hideo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

13C NMR; Achiral molecule; Banana shaped molecule; Conformational chirality; Ferroelectric liquid crystal; Helix; Smectic liquid crystal; X ray

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CONFORMATIONS; ESTERS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ACHIRAL MOLECULES; BANANA SHAPED MOLECULAR SYSTEMS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0031245541     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/jjap.36.6455     Document Type: Article

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