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

R Eelkema, BL Feringa

Index: Eelkema, Rienk; Feringa, Ben L. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2005 , vol. 127, # 39 p. 13480 - 13481

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Abstract

Amplification of chirality is of tremendous importance from both a fundamental and a practical point of view. It is considered an essential factor in the origin of homochirality in nature, triggered from an initially small chiral bias. 1 Amplification of chirality has been applied in several practical methods for detection and analysis of chiral compounds. 2 Among these, there are a few methods involving doped liquid crystalline (LC) systems. 3 Here, we report the transfer of chirality ...