Visualizing the helical stacking of octahedral metallomesogens with a chiral core.

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Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Kitasato University, 1-15-1, Kitasato, Minami-ku, Sagamihara 252-0373, Japan.

Published: October 2020

A combination of grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction and molecular dynamics simulation studies led to the visualization of the stacking structure of a helical columnar liquid crystal formed by enantiopure octahedral metallomesogens with ΔΛ chirality. The helical structure was elucidated as a hybrid of two major proposed structures.

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