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Journal of Materials Chemistry was published between 1991 and 2012. From issue 1, 2013, it was replaced by three new journals: Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C
Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Complesso di Monte S. Angelo, via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy
E-mail: oreste.tarallo@unina.it
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Dipartimento di Chimica e Biologia, INSTM Research Unit, Università degli Studi di Salerno, via Ponte Don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano, Italy
E-mail: cdaniel@unisa.it
J. Mater. Chem., 2012,22, 11672-11680
DOI:
10.1039/C2JM30907F
Received
14 Feb 2012,
Accepted
27 Mar 2012
First published online
29 Mar 2012
For an industrially relevant specialty polymer, poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene)oxide (PPO), for the first time, a crystalline structure is resolved. It is a co-crystalline structure of the polymer with a chiral guest molecule (α-pinene), exhibiting a 2/1 monomer-unit–guest molar ratio. The most relevant feature of this co-crystalline structure is its chirality. In fact, the unit cell includes all left- or right-handed polymer helices and (1S)-(−)- or (1R)-(+)-α-pinene guest molecules, respectively. The induction of non-racemic macromolecular helicity in the co-crystalline structure, clearly confirmed by VCD measurements, leads to amplification of chirality. Guest extraction procedures from the PPO–α-pinene co-crystalline form produce optically inactive nanoporous-crystalline modifications, which present high sorption ability toward organic compounds.
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