Virgil Percec

TL;DR: Birefringence and textural data for a ring-shaped trimeric liquid crystal are presented in this article, where the material apparently undergoes a uniaxial-to-biaxial nematic phase transition as a function of temperature.

TL;DR: In this paper, regioregular poly(p-phenylene)s (PPPs) with OCF3, CF3 or OCH3 substituents (16a, 16b, or 16c, respectively) were synthesized via Ni(0)-catalyzed polymerization of 2-substituted-1,4-bis[[(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl]oxy]biphenyls 14a, 14b and 2,2‘-disubstitized-4,4�

TL;DR: The discovery of lamellar and hexagonal periodic arrays on the surface of vesicles generated from sequence-defined bicomponent monodisperse oligomers containing lipid and glycolipid mimics provides a mechanism to encode the reactivity of sugars via their interaction with sugar-binding proteins.

TL;DR: In this article, the metal catalyzed living radical graft copolymerization experiments initiated from the structural defects of PVC with narrow molecular weight distribution were performed and it was shown that, contrary to the results obtained using model compounds as initiators, the structural defect of PVC provided an excellent initiation efficiency for butyl methacrylate and a less efficient initiation for styrene.

TL;DR: The columnar phase of several discotic compounds with increasing column rigidity is studied and expressions for distortion free energy suggest that the orientation is determined by the competition between the distortion energy of the 2-d lattice and the mismatch of its crystallographic facets with the curved pore wall in the axial orientation.