Chiral and Enantiopure Materials

Therefore, to be racemic or enantiopure does not designate the same chiral material. This is a key point, since in its racemic form a chiral material cannot lead to the breaking of spatial symmetry that is responsible for chiroptic properties. 

The existence of these multiple effects strengthens the study of multifunctional materials and, from this point of view, the availability of enantiopure materials offers an interesting field of research. In effect, the solid state organization of the racemate differs from that of the enantiomers and thus leads to the specific arrangements that determine the particular properties. 

We will now move on to the synthesis, organization and properties of chiral enantiopure materials in the fields of conduction, catalysis and chromatographic separation, optics and magnetism. 

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