Quantitative chirality of helicenes

Omer Katzenelson, Joseph Edelstein, David Avnir*

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Abstract

Quantitative evaluation of geometrical chirality through the use of the Continuous Chirality Measure is employed to unveil correlations between chirality and several properties of helicenes. These include the efficiency of their chiral-chromatographic racemate separation, their optical rotation, their racemization energy and the melting points of the enantiomer-crystals. The non-monotonic behavior of the chirality of helicenes is shown to reflect the behavior of a theoretical helix. Copyright (C) 2000.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2695-2704
Number of pages10
JournalTetrahedron Asymmetry
Volume11
Issue number13
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Jul 2000

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