Hierarchical Amplification of Macromolecular Helicity in a Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Charged Poly(phenylacetylene) by Nonracemic Dopants in Water and Its Helical Structure
Hierarchical Amplification of Macromolecular Helicity in a Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Charged Poly(phenylacetylene) by Nonracemic Dopants in Water and Its Helical Structure
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DOI:
10.1021/ma0606760
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发表时间:
2006-07
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5.5
通讯作者:
Kanji Nagai;Koichi Sakajiri;Katsuhiro Maeda;K. Okoshi;Takahiro Sato;E. Yashima
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作者:
Kanji Nagai;Koichi Sakajiri;Katsuhiro Maeda;K. Okoshi;Takahiro Sato;E. Yashima
We report a unique hierarchical amplification of chiral information from a nonracemic guest to macromolecular helicity, followed by a mesoscopic, supramolecular cholesteric twist in water. This remarkable chiral amplification involves two-step chirality transfer processes, which enable the detection and sensing of an extremely small imbalance in chiral guest molecules. The macromolecular helicity with an excess single-handed helix was first induced in the positively charged, chromophoric poly(phenylacetylene), the hydrochloride of poly(4-(N,N-diisopropylaminomethyl)phenylacetylene) (poly-1-HCl) upon complexation with an oppositely charged nonracemic acid as a dopant through electrostatic interaction in dilute water. Subsequently, the macromolecular helicity was further amplified in the polymer backbone as a greater excess of a single-handed helix through self-assembly into a lyotropic cholesteric liquid crystal (LC). Direct evidence for the hierarchical amplification process of the helical sense excess of...