Chiral Organic Crystal

A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2015) | Viewed by 8861

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Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 6068501, Japan
Interests: complexity phenomena; chiral symmetry breaking; spin symmetry breaking; chiral resolution; liquid crystals; organic crystals; magnetism
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Dear Colleagues,

For the last decade, the research topics on the chemistry and material science of chiral organic crystals have become diversified, and each topic has been remarkably advanced in concert with the rapid development of various analytical and measurement techniques for chiral solid-state organic materials. The aim of this Special Issue is to document the recent notable advances in various topics on chiral organic crystals involving liquid crystals and organic-inorganic hybrid materials that have been achieved in the last five years or so.

Prof. Dr. Rui Tamura
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Chiral resolution by crystallization
  • Chiral fluctuation and symmetry breaking phenomena
  • Electric or magnetic properties
  • Photochromism
  • Luminescence
  • Chiral metal organic frameworks crystals
  • Chiral liquid crystals
  • Dynamics
  • Thermodynamics
  • Phase diagrams
  • Polymorphism
  • Nucleation and crystal growth
  • Solid-state reaction

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Generation of Supramolecular Chirality around Twofold Rotational or Helical Axes in Crystalline Assemblies of Achiral Components
by Mikiji Miyata, Norimitsu Tohnai, Ichiro Hisaki and Toshiyuki Sasaki
Symmetry 2015, 7(4), 1914-1928; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym7041914 - 21 Oct 2015
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A multi-point approximation method clarifies supramolecular chirality of twofold rotational or helical assemblies as well as bundles of the one-dimensional (1D) assemblies. While one-point approximation of materials claims no chirality generation of such assemblies, multi-point approximations do claim possible generation in the 1D [...] Read more.
A multi-point approximation method clarifies supramolecular chirality of twofold rotational or helical assemblies as well as bundles of the one-dimensional (1D) assemblies. While one-point approximation of materials claims no chirality generation of such assemblies, multi-point approximations do claim possible generation in the 1D assemblies of bars and plates. Such chirality derives from deformations toward three-axial directions around the helical axes. The chiral columns are bundled in chiral ways through symmetry operations. The preferable right- or left-handed columns are bundled together to yield chiral crystals with right- or left-handedness, respectively, indicating that twofold helix symmetry operations cause chiral crystals composed of achiral components via a three-stepwise and three-directional process. Full article
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