Chromophores, self-assembled molecules, chirality

One of the advantages of supramolecular chemistry over the covalent molecular approach resides in the possibility of inducing and/or transferring properties from singular molecules to self-organized multi-molecular assemblies. Chirality is one of these properties it stems from the electronic level (the helical nature of the electron rearrangement during a transition in chiral chromophores) and spreads up to the three-dimensional spatial disposition of atoms, or molecular components in molecular or supramolecular entities, respectively. 

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