Structural transitions in chiral solutions and a microscopic model of a chiral string

Autor: Sergey V. Stovbun, V. L. Minaev, A. A. Skoblin, Evgeny A. Ryabov, V. B. Laptev, Sergey V. Chekalin, F. V. Bulygin, V. O. Kompanets, S. E. Permyakov
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 9:193-200
ISSN: 1990-7923
1990-7931
DOI: 10.1134/s1990793115020116
Popis: Homochiral solutions of trifluoroacetylaminoalcohols (TFAAAs) are investigated. It is established that TFAAA molecules aggregate into submicroscopic string with long-range order and helical symmetry, followed by successive formation, through supercoiling, of alternating chiral phases (elementary strings combine into microscopic due to the van der Waals interaction), observed as a structural transition with a width of 20–40°C. A microscopic model of a string is proposed, which takes into account that the stereospecificity of the multicenter interaction (complementarity) imposed by chirality leads to a stacking compact molecular packing (submicroscopic or elementary) of strings with a long-range order.
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