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SUBMITTER: Langer JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5882684 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Langer Jerzy J JJ Hreczycho Grzegorz G
Royal Society open science 20180314 3
Helical organic micro- and nanostructures are formed by a charge-transfer complex, cinchonidine-TCNQ. These unusual forms result from the chirality, the steric structure and specific interactions of cinchonidine molecules. These materials are semiconductors (10<sup>-4</sup> S cm<sup>-1</sup>), with the typical absorption spectra in IR and UV-vis, but also have a characteristic of CD spectrum. Surprisingly, conductive micro and nano helices are not formed in pseudo-enantiomeric cinchonine, i.e. t ...[more]