Temperature-dependent cooperative coiling of helical conformers of enantiopure oligo(tertiary phosphines)

Swiegers, Gerhard; Wild, Stanley (Bruce)

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Temperature-dependent cooperative coiling of helical conformers of enantiopure oligo(tertiary phosphines)

Date

2005

Authors

Swiegers, Gerhard

Wild, Stanley (Bruce)

Publisher

CSIRO Publishing

Abstract

The specific optical rotation of an enantiopure, syndiotactic hexa(tertiary phosphine) displays a marked temperature dependence that is consistent with the cooperative formation of helically coiled conformers in solution.