Construction of Chiral Propeller Architectures from Achiral Molecules

Chiral propeller architectures (see figure and inside cover) are constructed from achiral molecules via hydrogen bonding self-assembly in addition to Frank–Pryce spherulitic droplet and fingerprint textures. It is found, for the first time, that neither molecular chirality nor a molecular bend is necessary to form a chiral phase. This is of particular interest to the next generation of biological and electro-optical advances in materials science and technology.