On the mechanism of effectively chiral-pure macromolecular spiralization induced by a weakly chiral polarized heterochiral solution of a chiral compound

Chirality. 2021 Jun;33(6):315-320. doi: 10.1002/chir.23311. Epub 2021 Apr 20.

Abstract

There has been made an assumption, correlating with experimental data, that the phenomenon of effectively chiral-pure, chiral-induced spiralization of macromolecules in weakly polarized heterochiral solutions is determined by the mechanism of physico-chemical annihilation: enantiomers-antipodes of a chiral compound in a heterochiral solution annihilate; that is, they form achiral dimers, the solution becomes effectively homochiral and further, chiral-induced macromolecular spiralization of one sign of helicity is realized in it in the same way as in other homochiral solutions.

Keywords: antipodes annihilation; chiral polarization; chiral purity; heterochiral solution; macromolecular spiralization.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't