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Macroscopic evidence of molecular chirality in columnar mesophases

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Besides the classical liquid crystals observed with rod-like molecules (nematic and smectic mesophases) and plastic crystals obtained in the case of globular compounds, two new classes of thermotropic mesophases consisting of two-dimensional aromatic flat molecules have been investigated1–3: D columnar mesophases (columns of disk-like molecules in regular two-dimensional periodic array) and ND nematic mesophase (disk-like molecules parallel to an average plane). We report here two examples of molecular chirality directly observable in D mesophases of a resolved disk-like compound.

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  1. Laboratoire de Chimie des Interactions Moléculaires, Collège de France, 11 place Marcelin Berthelot, 75231, Paris, Cedex 05, France

    Jacques Malthête & Jean Jacques

  2. Centre de Recherche Paul-Pascal, Domaine Universitaire, 33405, Talence Cedex, France

    Nguyen Huu Tinh & Christian Destrade

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Malthête, J., Jacques, J., Tinh, N. et al. Macroscopic evidence of molecular chirality in columnar mesophases. Nature 298, 46–48 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1038/298046a0

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