Chiral Silica with Preferred-Handed Helical Structure via Chiral Transfer
Kei Manabe, Sung‐Yu Tsai, Satoshi Kuretani, Satoshi Kometani, Katsuyuki Ando, Yoshihiro Agata, Noboru Ohta, Yeo‐Wan Chiang, I‐Ming Lin, Syuji Fujii, Yoshinobu Nakamura, Yu‐Ning Chang, Yuta Nabae, Teruaki Hayakawa, Chien‐Lung Wang, Ming‐Chia Li, Tomoyasu Hirai
Abstract
-PMAPOSS) and a chiral dopant. The array structure of POSS molecules, which are placed along the helical conformation, is memorized even after removing the chiral dopant at high temperatures, leading to a chiral silica compound with exclusive optical activity after calcination.
Topics & Concepts
DopantSilsesquioxaneTacticityMaterials sciencePolymerCalcinationMoleculeChirality (physics)Side chainCrystallographyDopingChemistryOrganic chemistryPolymerizationComposite materialCatalysisChiral symmetryOptoelectronicsQuarkPhysicsQuantum mechanicsNambu–Jona-Lasinio modelSilicone and Siloxane ChemistryPolyoxometalates: Synthesis and ApplicationsSynthetic Organic Chemistry Methods