Cooperativity in the folding of helical m-phenylene ethynylene oligomers based upon the 'Sergeants-and-Soldiers' principle

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 19, 2001, Pages 4150-4154

  Prince, Ryan B ^a,c   Moore, Jeffrey S ^a   Brunsveld, Luc ^b   Meijer, E W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c 3M COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chirality; Circular dichroism; Cooperative effects; Oligomers; Solvent effects; Supramolecular chemistry

Indexed keywords

ACETONITRILE; CONFORMATIONS; SPECTROSCOPY;

POLAR SOLVENTS;

OLIGOMERS;

3 PHENYLENEETHYNYLENE; ACETONITRILE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; OLIGOMER; PHENYL GROUP; SOLVENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIRALITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0035476560     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-3765(20011001)7:19<4150::AID-CHEM4150>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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30. It could also be argued that reversals of the helical twist sense occur within a single oligomer strand. However, this effect can be excluded since previous studies [21] indicate that an analogous series of oligomers adopt a single helical conformation in solution absent of helical reversals.