Preparation of helical liquid crystal electrolyte with L-isoleucine derivatives and molecular asymmetric imprinting polymerization in liquid crystal to produce electro-optically coloration active polymers having chiral charge carrier chiralions

Abstract

Molecular asymmetric imprinting polymerization in the cholesteric liquid crystal was carried out. An L-isoleucine derivative with fluorine was synthesized for a chiral inducer to induce the cholesteric liquid crystal from the nematic liquid crystal. A substance with multiple asymmetric centers can be obtained conveniently to use amino acid as chiral substance. The L-isoleucine derivative induced helical structure for 4-cyano-4'-hexylbiphenyl (6CB). Electrochemical preparation of π-conjugated polymers was carried out in the cholesteric liquid crystal. Fingerprint texture derived from the cholesteric liquid crystal was transcribed to the polymers. UV-vis and circular dichroism (CD) spectra of oxidized (doped) for and reduced (dedoped) form of the polymer were measured. Electrochemical polymerization in the helical liquid crystal produced the molecular aggregation imprinted chiral polymers, which have liquid crystal-like aggregation form, chirality with no stereogenic center via formation of polymer atropisomer, and electrochemical driven change in optical activity, as a form of electro-optically coloration active polymers. Finally, the polarons and bipolarons are in the form of chiral structure. These charge carriers in the polymers can be determined as chiral charge carrier “chiralions”.