Chiroptical generation and inversion during the mirror-symmetry-breaking aggregation of dialkylpolysilanes due to limonene chirality

Yoko Nakano; Fumiko Ichiyanagi; Masanobu Naito; Yonggang Yang; Michiya Fujiki

doi:10.1039/c2cc17845a

Chiroptical generation and inversion during the mirror-symmetry-breaking aggregation of dialkylpolysilanes due to limonene chirality

Chem Commun (Camb). 2012 Jul 7;48(53):6636-8. doi: 10.1039/c2cc17845a. Epub 2012 Feb 24.

Authors

Yoko Nakano¹, Fumiko Ichiyanagi, Masanobu Naito, Yonggang Yang, Michiya Fujiki

Affiliation

¹ Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan.

PMID: 22361997
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc17845a

Abstract

We observed the emergence and inversion of chiroptical handedness in three chiroptically silent dialkylpolysilanes during aggregation in limonene-methanol-THF tersolvents.