Molecular recognition directed self-assembly of supramolecular liquid crystalline polymers from complementary chiral components
✍ Scribed by Dr. Claudine Fouquey; Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn; Anne-Marie Levelut
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 468 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0935-9648
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✦ Synopsis
Recognition processes occuring at the molecular level may lead to changes at the level of the material, thus expressing molecular information on the macroscopic scale. This is the case namely when the formation of a complementary supramolecular pair E 3 induces the appearance of a liquid crystalline phase. ''] If two (or more) units E or 3 are grafted onto a template T, mixing TE, with the complementary T3,,, may lead to the self-assembly of a linear or cross-linked polymeric supramolecular species (TE, ,T3,,,)" whose existence is conditioned by the molecular recognition directed association between the E and 3 groups.[21 Figure I represents schematically such * + + mEZ,T32).