Helical Chirality of Supramolecular Columns and Spheres Self‐Organizes Complex Liquid Crystals, Crystals, and Quasicrystals

• Published in: Israel journal of chemistry Vol. 61; no. 9-10; pp. 530 - 556
• Main Authors: Percec, Virgil, Xiao, Qi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Haifa Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.10.2021
• Subjects: Assemblies; Chirality; deracemization in crystal state; helical columns; Helices; Homochiral; Liquid crystals; Macromolecules; Organizations; Quasicrystals; self-organization; spherical helix

Homochiral helical self‐organizations provide some of the most fundamental architectures of biological macromolecules and of their co‐assemblies although they were first discovered and elucidated only during the early 1950. Helical synthetic covalent macromolecules started to be discovered soon afte...