Study of molecular rotational isomerism using deuterium NMR in chiral oriented solvents.

Chem Commun (Camb)

Laboratoire de Chimie Structurale Organique, UMR 8074, ICMMO, Bât. 410, Université de Paris-Sud, 91405, Orsay, France.

Published: January 2006

Deuterium NMR in polypeptide chiral liquid crystals is used for the first time to investigate the internal rotational isomerism phenomenon, illustrated by the interconversion between conformers of 1-(2,6-dideutero-4-methylphenyl)naphthalene

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