We have found a simple and novel synthetic method for obtaining a chiral polymer from an achiral monomer by using a chiral catalytic system. The chirality of the polymer was caused only by a one-handed helical backbone, and the polymer had no other chiral structures in the side groups. In addition, the helical conformation was stable in solution by itself. This is the first example of helix-sense-selective polymerization of a substituted acetylene. The stability of the helicity was found to be caused by intramolecular hydrogen bonds.
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