A liquid crystalline chirality balance for vapours

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ohzono, Takuya ^a   Yamamoto, Takahiro ^a   Fukuda, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 PHENYLETHANOL; 2 BUTANOL; 2,3 BUTANEDIOL; 3 CARENE; ABSINTHOL; ALPHA METHYLBENZYLAMINE; BETA PINENE; BORNEOL; CAMPHENE; CARVEOL; CARVONE; CARYOPHYLLENE DERIVATIVE; CITRONELLOL; CRYSTALLIN; IBUPROFEN; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; MENTHONE; PINENE; TERPINEN 4 OL; TERPINEOL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMER; GAS; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MOLECULE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VAPOR; ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ODOR; PROCEDURES; VOLATILIZATION;

CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, ANALYTICAL; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROCHEMISTRY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; ODORS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 84899835645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4735     Document Type: Article

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