Induced Chiral Mesophases from Achiral Naphthoate Derivatives in Self-Assembled Systems

Abstract

The enhanced ordering arrangement of liquid crystals has been documented for well over a century, but the increase in popularity of inducible mesophases has emerged as a leading optioelectronic material. Applications reach from liquid crystalline displays to the plasmidal DNA of bacteria. Given the special nature of supramolecular organization (in which entire macromolecules reorient themselves throughout the ordered states) we can leverage these species under covalent conditions to lock assemblages in place. It is in these induced chiral mesophases where there is a need for further study, to better understand the implications of chain organization.