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From Molecules to Materials: Engineering New Ionic Liquid Crystals Through Halogen Bonding
Published on: March 24, 2018
Solvophobic interaction promoted supramolecular helical assembly of building blocks of weak intermolecular halogen
Xiaosheng Yan1, Jinlian Cao, Yanhan Zhang
1Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, and iChEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China. ybjiang@xmu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
We report supramolecular helical assembly in water of β-turn structured bis(N-amidothioureas) containing Br-substitutes of moderate halogen bonding ability, promoted by stronger hydrophobic interaction. The helical polymers show an unusual negative nonlinear CD-ee dependence.
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