Sergeants-and-soldiers principle in chiral columnar stacks of disc-shaped molecules with C3 symmetry

Angewandte Chemie (International Edition in English)

Volumn 36, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 2648-2651

  Palmans, Anja R A ^a   Vekemans, Jef A J M ^a   Havinga, Edsko E ^a   Meijer, E W ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chirality; Circular dichroism; Helical structures; Stacking interactions; Supramolecular chemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031573957     PISSN: 05700833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.199726481     Document Type: Article

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