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Conformational ordering of apolar chiral m-phenylene ethynylene oligomers

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    Abstract

    A series of m-phenylene ethynylene oligomers containing nonpolar, (S)-3,7-dimethyl-1-octanoxy side chains have been synthesized and studied. In apolar alkane solvents, oligomers of sufficient length (n > 10) were found to adopt a helical conformation with a large twist sense bias. In contrast, in chloroform the oligomers adopt a random coil conformation. Surprisingly, the strong twist sense bias was determined to be highly time dependent and is partially attributed to intermolecular aggregation.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1525-1528
    Number of pages4
    JournalOrganic Letters
    Volume2
    Issue number11
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2000

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