Helical polymers based on intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded aromatic polyamides.

Yi-Xuan Lu, Zhu-Ming Shi, Zhan-Ting Li, Zhibin Guan

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) 46(47) , 9019-21, (2010)

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Abstract

Inspired by arylamide-based oligomeric foldermers that are stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonding, a series of polyamides with intramolecular hydrogen-bonding motifs were synthesized via polycondensation reactions. These polymers can fold into helical conformation different from their linear control. The chirality of helical conformation can further be tuned via acid-base complexation using chiral residues.