title: Determination of the helical screw sense and side-group chirality of a synthetic chiral polymer from Raman optical activity.
abstract: Splitting it up: excellent agreement between the experimental and the quantum-chemically simulated Raman optical activity (ROA) spectrum of (+)-poly(trityl methacrylate) shows that the polymer backbone adopts a left-handed helical conformation while the trityl side groups display a left-handed propeller conformation. Thus ROA can be used to determine the complete structure of synthetic chiral polymers in solution.
authors: Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
authors: Christian
authors: C
authors: Merten
authors: Laurence D
authors: LD
authors: Barron
authors: Lutz
authors: L
authors: Hecht
authors: Christian
authors: C
authors: Johannessen
mesh_terms: D002942:Circular Dichroism; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011108:Polymers / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers