Macroscopic expression of the chirality of amino alcohols by a double amplification mechanism in liquid crystalline media

Rienk Eelkema; Ben L Feringa

doi:10.1021/ja054352n

Macroscopic expression of the chirality of amino alcohols by a double amplification mechanism in liquid crystalline media

J Am Chem Soc. 2005 Oct 5;127(39):13480-1. doi: 10.1021/ja054352n.

Authors

Rienk Eelkema¹, Ben L Feringa

Affiliation

¹ Department of Organic and Molecular Inorganic Chemistry, Stratingh Institute, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.

PMID: 16190695
DOI: 10.1021/ja054352n

Abstract

The central chirality of simple amino alcohols was amplified by binding to a dynamically axially chiral biphenol receptor and expressed as supramolecular chirality by effecting a change from a nematic to a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase.