Preferential screw sense polysilanes

Preferential Screw Sense Helical Ordering of Polysilanes... 

On the other hand, noticeable cooperative preferential screw sense induction was reported in rodlike polysilane copolymers bearing (.S )-2-mcthylbutyl and 2-methylpropyl groups (10) and (R)-2-melhylbutyl and 2-methylpropyl groups (11) in isooctane (Chart 4.3). Since the UV-CD spectral features of the polysilane copolymers are almost identical with those of 4-6 and the Xmax varies sensitively with changes in the molar fraction of chiral substituents and temperature,28 the copolymer systems are suitable for testing the sergeants-and-soldiers phenomenon by their CD-UV spectra. 

Preferential helical screw sense polysilanes with main-chain chirality are essentially of two types those in which PSS chirality is induced by an internal chiral field, for example, incorporation of enantiopure chiral (unichiral) side chains or end groups, and those which are inherently achiral, in which PSS chirality is induced by an external chiral field, such as a unichiral additive or solvent. 

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