Abnormal sergeants-and-soldiers effects of poly(quinoxaline-2,3-diyl)s enabling discrimination of one-carbon homologous n-alkanes through a highly sensitive solvent-dependent helix inversion.

Abnormal sergeants-and-soldiers effects of poly(quinoxaline-2,3-diyl)s enabling discrimination of one-carbon homologous n-alkanes through a highly sensitive solvent-dependent helix inversion.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 May 15;:
Authors: Nagata Y, Nishikawa T, Suginome M
Abstract
Poly(quinoxaline-2,3-diyl)s bearing (S)-3-octyloxymethyl and n-propoxymethyl side chains show an abnormal sergeants-and-soldiers effect in n-alkane solvents, which allows the development of a series of PQXs that exhibit an extremely sensitive solvent-dependent helix inversion that permits the discrimination of n-alkane solvents that differ by a single methylene group (e.g. n-heptane and n-octane).
PMID: 29761800 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Chemical Communications - May 15, 2018 Category: Chemistry Authors: Nagata Y, Nishikawa T, Suginome M Tags: Chem Commun (Camb) Source Type: research