Chemistry Letters, Vol.32, No.11, 1086-1087, 2003
Cu(II)-assisted helicity induction on a poly(phenylacetylene) derivative bearing an achiral glycine residue with amino acids in water
Poly(phenylacetylene) bearing an achiral glycine residue exhibits an induced circular dichroism in the UV-vis region upon complexation with free amino acids in water due to a predominantly one-handed helix formation and the Cotton effect intensity is amplified in the presence of a Cu(II) ion.