Chiral Studies across the Spectrum of Polymer Science

Autor: Sung-Yun Yang, Kap-Soo Cheon, Ji-Woong Park, Susan Swansburg, Mark M. Green, Weihong Liu
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Accounts of Chemical Research. 34:672-680
ISSN: 1520-4898
0001-4842
DOI: 10.1021/ar010009l
Popis: This Account describes how stereochemical ideas focused on chirality have been directed widely across polymer science allowing experiments that could not be conducted on small molecules and leading to new insights and new kinds of materials. In one approach, a helical polymer was studied, and it was discovered how the chiral information necessary to choose helical sense is greatly amplified. In another approach, the racemization kinetics of atropisomers were used to characterize the restrictions to motion associated with a polyelectrolyte that forms clusters around hydrophobic groups in water and in an entirely different system, the glassy state formed by polymers.
Databáze: OpenAIRE