ISSN:
0018-019X
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Organic Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
The chiral structure of heptalene is characterised, for a given configuration, by helicities, which are opposite in the direction (x) of the central C(5a)-C(10a) bond and in the direction (y) of a line perpendicular to it, passing through the C(3)-and C(8)-atoms. These two helicities can be experimentally established and differentiated by the handedness of the cholesteric mesophases induced in a biphenyl-type liquid crystal (LC) by chiral heptalenes with substituents favouring the x or y orientation along the nematic director of the LC.
Additional Material:
4 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hlca.19870700222
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