title: Chiral molecular imprinting in liquid-crystalline network.
abstract: A cholesteric imprinted elastomer was obtained by cross-linking a nematic side-chain polysiloxane around a chiral template. The template was first linked to some functionalised groups of the polymer via hydrogen-bound interactions, then was removed by washing. The sample was macroscopically oriented during the synthesis; so, both a molecular chirality and a supramolecular phase chirality were topologically imprinted inside the network. Batch rebinding experiments, performed in the presence of the template or of the other enantiomer, showed that the imprinted polymer has a pronounced stereo-selectivity towards the template enantiomer. The rebinding capacity appeared to be greater than an unimprinted mesogenic network as well as than an imprinted non mesogenic one.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Interactions Moléculaires et Réactivité Chimique et Photochimique, UMR CNRS 5623, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: J-D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Marty
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gornitzka
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mauzac