Asymmetric photopolymerisation in chiral crystals. An example of a chiral resolved monomer packing in two quasi-enantiomeric phases
Abstract
The ability of molecules, chiral by virtue of the presence of an s-butyl group, to display conformational polymorphism has been exploited for the performance of asymmetric syntheses of either sense on the same chiral molecule; this phenomenon is illustrated for the asymmetric solid-state polymerization of the monomer (R)-(–)-(1).