Mirror Symmetry Breaking by Chirality Synchronisation in Liquids and Liquid Crystals of Achiral Molecules

A Perfect Match: Fullerene Guests in Star-Shaped Oligophenylenevinylene Mesogens

(2015) Matthias Lehmann et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking in a re-entrant isotropic liquid

(2015) Christian Dressel et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Strategies to create hierarchical self-assembled structures via cooperative non-covalent interactions

(2015) Christina Rest et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Apolar Bimesogens and the Incidence of the Twist-Bend Nematic Phase

(2015) Richard J. Mandle et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Supermolecular Bent Configuration Composed of Achiral Flexible Liquid Crystal Trimers Exhibiting Chiral Domains with Opposite Handedness

(2015) Haruna Sasaki et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Do the short helices exist in the nematic TB phase?

(2015) Ewa Gorecka et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Understanding the unusual reorganization of the nanostructure of a dark conglomerate phase

(2015) M. Nagaraj et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Chiral structures from achiral liquid crystals in cylindrical capillaries

(2015) Joonwoo Jeong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A rational strategy for the realization of chain-growth supramolecular polymerization

(2015) J. Kang et al.   SCIENCE

On the structure of the Nx phase of symmetric dimers: inferences from NMR

(2015) Anke Hoffmann et al.   Soft Matter

Sequential phase transformation of propeller-like C3-symmetric liquid crystals from a helical to ordered to disordered hexagonal columnar structure

(2015) Soyoung Park et al.   Soft Matter

Abiotic ligation of DNA oligomers templated by their liquid crystal ordering

(2015) Tommaso P. Fraccia et al.   Nature Communications

Stereocomplexed Poly(Limonene Carbonate): A Unique Example of the Cocrystallization of Amorphous Enantiomeric Polymers

(2014) Finizia Auriemma et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Dynamic Mirror-Symmetry Breaking in Bicontinuous Cubic Phases

(2014) Christian Dressel et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Growth Actuated Bending and Twisting of Single Crystals

(2014) Alexander G. Shtukenberg et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Origins of Homochirality Examined by Using Asymmetric Autocatalysis

(2014) Kenso Soai et al.   CHEMICAL RECORD

Nanotubes Self-Assembled from Amphiphilic Molecules via Helical Intermediates

(2014) Thomas G. Barclay et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Application of electronic circular dichroism in the study of supramolecular systems

(2014) Gennaro Pescitelli et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Absolute Asymmetric Synthesis in Enantioselective Autocatalytic Reaction Networks: Theoretical Games, Speculations on Chemical Evolution and Perhaps a Synthetic Option

(2014) Josep M. Ribó  et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

A Closer Look at Spontaneous Mirror Symmetry Breaking in Aldol Reactions

(2014) Guillem Valero et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Homochiral Columns Constructed by Chiral Self-Sorting During Supramolecular Helical Organization of Hat-Shaped Molecules

(2014) Cécile Roche et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Chiral self-sorting and amplification in isotropic liquids of achiral molecules

(2014) Christian Dressel et al.   Nature Chemistry

Chiral symmetry breaking dictated by electric-field-driven shape transitions of nucleating conglomerate domains in a bent-core liquid crystal

(2014) G. B. Deepa et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Twist-bend heliconical chiral nematic liquid crystal phase of an achiral rigid bent-core mesogen

(2014) Dong Chen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Gelation induced supramolecular chirality: chirality transfer, amplification and application

(2014) Pengfei Duan et al.   Soft Matter

The cybotactic nematic phase of bent-core mesogens: state of the art and future developments

(2014) Oriano Francescangeli et al.   Soft Matter

Flexoelectric behavior of bimesogenic liquid crystals in the nematic phase – observation of a new self-assembly pattern at the twist-bend nematic and the nematic interface

(2014) R. Balachandran et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

4-Cyanoresorcinol-Based Bent-Core Mesogens with Azobenzene Wings: Emergence of Sterically Stabilized Polar Order in Liquid Crystalline Phases

(2013) Mohammed Alaasar et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Mechanisms of Autocatalysis

(2013) Andrew J. Bissette et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Development of Structural Complexity by Liquid-Crystal Self-assembly

(2013) Carsten Tschierske   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Homochiral and heterochiral assembly preferences at different length scales – conglomerates and racemates in the same assemblies

(2013) Jianbin Lin et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Prebiotic Systems Chemistry: New Perspectives for the Origins of Life

(2013) Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Chiral Isotropic Sponge Phase of Hexatic Smectic Layers of Achiral Molecules

(2013) Dong Chen et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

The Role of Carbohydrates at the Origin of Homochirality in Biosystems

(2013) Søren Toxvaerd   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Chiral heliconical ground state of nanoscale pitch in a nematic liquid crystal of achiral molecular dimers

(2013) D. Chen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Colloquium: Homochirality: Symmetry breaking in systems driven far from equilibrium

(2013) Yukio Saito et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation

(2013) V. Borshch et al.   Nature Communications

Lyotropic Supramolecular Helical Columnar Phases Formed byC3-Symmetric and Unsymmetric Rigid Molecules

(2012) Daoliang Wang  et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Tailored Host-Guest Lipidic Cubic Phases: A Protocell Model Exhibiting Nucleic Acid Recognition

(2012) Marek Komisarski et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

What Molecular Features Govern the Mechanism of Supramolecular Polymerization?

(2012) Chidambar Kulkarni et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

On the Physical Basis of Asymmetry and Homochirality

(2012) Pedro Cintas et al.   CHIRALITY

Recent Progress in the Synthesis and Structural Clarification of Thermotropic Cubic Phases

(2012) Shoichi Kutsumizu   ISRAEL JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Pasteur’s Tweezers Revisited: On the Mechanism of Attrition-Enhanced Deracemization and Resolution of Chiral Conglomerate Solids

(2012) Jason E. Hein et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Molecular chirality at surfaces

(2012) Karl-Heinz Ernst   PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI B-BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS

Tetrahedratic Mesophases, Ambidextrous Chiral Domains and Helical Superstructures Produced by Achiral 1,1′-Disubstituted Ferrocene Derivatives

(2011) Eun Ho Kim et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Spontaneous Deracemization

(2011) David B. Amabilino et al.   ISRAEL JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Self-Assembly of Dendronized Perylene Bisimides into Complex Helical Columns

(2011) Virgil Percec et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Effect of Stereogenic Centers on the Self-Sorting, Depolymerization, and Atropisomerization Kinetics of Porphyrin-Based Aggregates

(2011) Floris Helmich et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Methylene-linked liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase

(2011) Peter A. Henderson et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Phase behavior and properties of the liquid-crystal dimer 1′′,7′′-bis(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl) heptane: A twist-bend nematic liquid crystal

(2011) M. Cestari et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Chiral symmetry breaking by spatial confinement in tactoidal droplets of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals

(2011) L. Tortora et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spontaneous Deracemization of Disc-like Molecules in the Columnar Phase

(2010) Hiroki Nagayama et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Driving Mechanism Behind Attrition-Enhanced Deracemization

(2010) Wim L. Noorduin et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Spontaneous Periodic Deformations in Nonchiral Planar-Aligned Bimesogens with a Nematic-Nematic Transition and a Negative Elastic Constant

(2010) V. P. Panov et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Nematic phases of bent-core mesogens

(2010) Christina Keith et al.   Soft Matter

Homochirality and chemical evolution: new vistas and reflections on recent models

(2010) Martín Ávalos et al.   TETRAHEDRON-ASYMMETRY

From Ostwald Ripening to Single Chirality

(2009) Wim L. Noorduin et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Nonlinear Effects in Asymmetric Catalysis

(2009) Tummanapalli Satyanarayana et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Hollow Six-Stranded Helical Columns of a Helicene

(2009) Maxim A. Shcherbina et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

What is Cooperativity?

(2009) Christopher A. Hunter et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Twists in mesomorphic columnar supramolecular assemblies

(2009) Francisco Vera et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Chiral expression from molecular assemblies at metal surfaces: insights from surface science techniques

(2009) R. Raval   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Origin of Homochirality in Biosystems

(2009) Søren Toxvaerd   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Spontaneous Chirality Induction and Enantiomer Separation in Liquid Crystals Composed of Achiral Rod-Shaped 4-Arylbenzoate Esters

(2009) Hyeon Su Jeong et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Enhanced Optical Activity by Achiral Rod-Like Molecules Nanosegregated in the B4Structure of Achiral Bent-Core Molecules

(2009) Taketo Otani et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Spontaneous Mirror Symmetry Breaking in the Aldol Reaction and its Potential Relevance in Prebiotic Chemistry

(2009) Michael Mauksch et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Homochirality and the Need for Energy

(2009) Raphaël Plasson et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Homochirality in Life: Two Equal Runners, One Tripped

(2009) Mark M. Green et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Spontaneously chiral domains of an achiral bent-core nematic liquid crystal in a planar aligned device

(2009) P. S. Salter et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Chiral Isotropic Liquids from Achiral Molecules

(2009) L. E. Hough et al.   SCIENCE

Helical Nanofilament Phases

(2009) L. E. Hough et al.   SCIENCE

Sublime Arguments: Rethinking the Generation of Homochirality under Prebiotic Conditions

(2008) Pedro Cintas   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Chirality Recognition between Neutral Molecules in the Gas Phase

(2008) Anne Zehnacker et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Helical nonracemic tubular coordination polymer gelators from simple achiral molecules

(2008) Shiyong Zhang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Star-Shaped Oligobenzoates: Non-conventional Mesogens Forming Columnar Helical Mesophases

(2008) Matthias Lehmann et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Testing the triple network structure of the cubic Im3̄m (I) phase by isomorphous replacement and model refinement

(2008) Xiangbing Zeng et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Self-Assembly of Dendritic Crowns into Chiral Supramolecular Spheres

(2008) Virgil Percec et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Houghet al.Reply:

(2008) Loren E. Hough et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Self-Assembled Chiral Superstructures Composed of Rigid Achiral Molecules and Molecular Scale Chiral Induction by Dopants

(2008) Fangyong Yan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Control of dynamic helicity at the macro- and supramolecular level

(2008) Dirk Pijper et al.   Soft Matter