– Motivated by puzzling experimental observations made in compounds composed of banana-shaped molecules, we investigate the symmetries and the physical properties of liquid crystalline columnar phases with a macroscopic polarization in achiral materials. This study is driven by two key observations made for the still poorly understood B7 phase: a) freely suspended films decompose spontaneously ...

Double-helical architectures obtained from achiral ligands and metal ions present supramolecular homochirality in the single -crystal state under constitutional self-sorting.

A highly isotactic stereoblock PLA has been obtained using the achiral heteroscorpionate zwitterionic zinc complexes as catalysts, for the first time, via a chain-end control mechanism.

We describe our studies on the effect of various Lewis bases and Brønsted acids as achiral additives on the stereoselectivity of some Rh(ii)-catalyzed cyclopropanations.

Kinetic Controlled Chirality Transfer and Induction Two-dimensional hydrogen-bonding assemblies with different chirality, e.g. achiral, homochiral racemic, are synthesized on Au(111) surface by using achiral glycylglycine, one of the simplest polypeptides, as building blocks. induction related symmetry broken in introduced handedness assembled motifs then amplified to entire via interaction bet...

Achiral silver nanoparticles are modified with amino acids to make the overall chiral nano-assembly. Electrical measurements performed, and XOR logic gate is implemented.

Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) in simple (small, nonaggregated, nonpolymeric) O-BODIPYs (R)-1 and (S)-1 by irradiation with visible light is first detected as proof of the ability of a new structural design to achieve CPL from inherently achiral monochromophore systems in simple organic molecules. The measured level of CPL (|g(lum)|) in solution falls into the usual range of that obtai...