Polyguanidines as Chiral Orienting Media for Organic Compounds

Abstract

Handy polymers: The lyotropic liquid-crystalline phases of helically chiral polyguanidines are proposed as new chiral orienting media for organic compounds. The enantiomers of isopinocampheol (IPC) are oriented in an enantiodifferentiating manner (see figure). The difference in orientation induced for the two enantiomers seems to be larger than the one observed in poly-γ-benzyl-L-glutamate (PBLG). Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.