LONG-RANGE CHIRAL INDUCTION IN CHEMICAL-SYSTEMS WITH HELICAL ORGANIZATION - PROMESOGENIC MONOMERS IN THE FORMATION OF POLY(ISOCYANIDE)S ANDIN THE ORGANIZATION OF LIQUID-CRYSTALS
Db. Amabilino et al., LONG-RANGE CHIRAL INDUCTION IN CHEMICAL-SYSTEMS WITH HELICAL ORGANIZATION - PROMESOGENIC MONOMERS IN THE FORMATION OF POLY(ISOCYANIDE)S ANDIN THE ORGANIZATION OF LIQUID-CRYSTALS, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 120(36), 1998, pp. 9126-9134
The preparation of optically active poly(isocyanide)s derived from chi
ral promesogenic monomers is reported. Remarkably, the stereogenic car
bon atom in the monomer is able to pass its chiral ''information'' to
the growing polymer backbone which is at least 14 atoms (approximately
16 Angstrom) remote from it. The sense of helical induction in these
conformationally rigid polymers is compared to the helical sense of th
e cholesteric phases, as well as to the helical senses of chiral smect
ic C phases, induced by the monomers in nematic and smectic C phases,
respectively. Both relate to the odd-even rules for chiral sense chang
es in liquid crystalline phases. The role of noncovalent interactions
in the polymerization has been proven by performing the reactions at v
arious concentrations and in different solvents-the chiral induction f
rom monomer to polymer is greatest in most concentrated reactions and
in solvents with a balance between high dipolarity-polarizability and
low hydrogen bond accepting and cavitational terms, as determined by a
n LSER analysis.