History 12-Hydroxystearic Acid

12-Hydroxy stearic acid and polybenzylglutamate were the classical cases of relatively simple molecules that produced twisted fibers, till the burst of reports on other examples, viz. amino acid amphiphiles, diacetylenic phospholipids, and gluconamides started in the mid-1980s. The handedness of chiral assemblies can be determined from electron micrographs, provided that care is taken to manipulate grids, specimens, films, and image scanners in a consistent way. It was not till the 

The area of chiral polymers is also a field of growing interest, with chiral structures reported for polymethacrylate esters and polyacetaldehydes, polytriha-loacetaldehydes, polythiophenes, polyquinoxalin-2,3-diyles, poly-arene- 

Another interesting related field that has recently started to develop is that of the construction of chiral hollow spheres and chiral spaces in self-assembled cavi-tands. 3  

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