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Chemistry 6321, Spring 2006
Supermolecular Stereochemistry:
Spontaneous Reflection Symmetry Breaking in Liquid Crystals
and other cool stuff
Monday/Wednesday 10:00-10:50 in EKLC 165
Professor David Walba
Greetings! The following links are relevant to our course. Enjoy...
Part 1: Topological Stereochemistry (6.6 MB pdf)
Part 2: Intro to Liquid Crystals (11.8 MB pdf)
Part 3: Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals (7.3 MB pdf)
Part 4: Bananas! (15.1 MB pdf)
Part 5: Post-bananas: Reflection symmetry breaking in liquid crystals (9.1 MB pdf)
Kishikawa 2005 - 8barO8bar forms a chiral SmC phase
Boulder group refutation of Kishikawa 2005
Meyer and Pershan splay stripes 1973
Sekine et al. 1997 - the invention of the "conformational chirality" hypothesis
Conformational chirality hypothesis confirmed - 2004
Conformational chirality hypothesis refuted - 2005
Hird, Goodby et al. 2001 - parity violation #1
Topological Stereochemistry reprints
Topological Stereochemistry review
A brief pdf file discussing point groups, including examples using molecules.
Discussion of point groups from "The Chemist's Companion" by Arnold J. Gordon and Richard A. Ford, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1972, pp 471-480 is in here.
Learn about FLCs from the chemistry perspective - from the famous proposal of Meyer (1974) through 1989 - by reading the review article "FLC Review" here.
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