Mechanism of the transformation of a stiff polymer lyotropic nematic liquid crystal to the cholesteric state by dopant-mediated chiral information transfer

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 120, Issue 38, 1998, Pages 9810-9817

  Green, Mark M ^a   Zanella, Stefania ^b   Gu, Hong ^a   Sato, Takahiro ^c   Gottarelli, Giovanni ^d   Jha, Salil K ^e   Spada, Gian Piero ^b   Schoevaars, Anne Marie ^c   Feringa, Ben ^d   Teramoto, Akio ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOCYANIC ACID DERIVATIVE; POLY(N HEXYLISOCYANATE); UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LIQUID CRYSTAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 17344363900     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja981393t     Document Type: Article

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