Chirality driven self-assembly in a fluorescent organogel

Chirality

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 833-840

  Cicchi, Stefano ^a   Pescitelli, Gennaro ^b   Lascialfari, Luisa ^a   Ghini, Giacomo ^c   Bari, Lorenzo Di ^b   Brandi, Alberto ^a   Bussotti, Laura ^d   Atsbeha, Tesfay ^d,e   Marcelli, Agnese ^d   Foggi, Paolo ^d,f   Berti, Debora ^a   Mannini, Matteo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^e ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

benzofurazan; circular dichroism; De Voe method; fluorescence; organogel; self assembly

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; ORGANIC SOLVENT; ORGANOGEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHIRALITY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ENANTIOMER; GEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 80052799570     PISSN: 08990042     EISSN: 1520636X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chir.21007     Document Type: Article

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