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Title: | Stirring competes with chemical induction in chiral selection of soft matter aggregates |
Author: | Petit Garrido, Núria Claret Bonet, Josep Ignés i Mullol, Jordi Sagués i Mestre, Francesc |
Keywords: | Quiralitat Química supramolecular Chirality Supramolecular chemistry |
Issue Date: | 14-Aug-2012 |
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
Abstract: | Chirality, the absence of mirror symmetry, can be equally invoked in relation to physical forces and chemical induction processes, yet a competition between these two types of influence is rarely reported. Here we present a self-assembled soft matter system in which chiral selection is controlled by the combined independent action of a chiral dopant and vortical stirring, which are arbitrarily coupled, either constructively or destructively. In the latter case, perfect compensation, that is, absence of a net chiral effect, is realized. The induced enantiomorphic excess is measured in terms of the statistical imbalance of an ensemble of submillimetre domains, where achiral molecules self-assemble with a well-defined orientational chirality that is unambiguously resolved using optical microscopy. The possibility of combining top-down and bottom-up strategies to induce a chiral predominance in a supramolecular system of achiral components should be recognized as a new twist in the process of chiral recognition, selection and control. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1987 |
It is part of: | Nature Communications, 2012, vol. 3, num. 1, p. 1001 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/156058 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1987 |
ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Ciència dels Materials i Química Física) |
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