Chemical Symmetry Breaking

• Other Authors: Tamura, Rui (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Research & information: general; amplification of chirality; dynamic crystallization; Diels-Alder reaction; absolute asymmetric synthesis; conglomerate; racemization; attrition-enhanced deracemization; Viedma ripening; reversible reaction; enantiomorphic crystal; polymorphism; off-shell quantum field; space-like momentum; dressed photon; micro-macro duality; Clebsch dual field; Majorana fermion; the cosmological term; Weyl tensor; dark energy; dark matter; photomechanical; crystal; right-left symmetry breaking; chiral symmetry breaking; dissipative structure; energy conversion; mechanical work; self-oscillation; collective dynamics; autonomous motion; self-replication; autocatalysis; molecular motor; molecular robot; amorphous-to-crystal phase transformation; detection of real-time symmetry breaking; mechanofluorochromism; fluorescence spectroscopy; liquid-like cluster; evaporative crystallization; quartz crystal microbalance; two-step nucleation model; chiral; circularly polarized luminescence (CPL); magnetic circularly polarized luminescence (MCPL); spontaneous resolution; chirality; deracemization; preferential enrichment; thermodynamics; phase diagrams; kinetics; symmetry breaking; ferroelectricity; antiferrolelectricity; subphases; resonant X-ray scattering; vapochromism; fluorescence; macrocycles; inclusion crystals; host-guest chemistry; spin symmetry breaking; magnetic liquid crystals; magneto-LC effect; nitroxide radicals; superparamagnetic domain; spin glass state; elastic organic crystals; mechanical deformation; π-conjugated molecules; photoluminescence; deformation-induced photoluminescence changes; biomolecular handedness; circular dichroism; circularly polarized luminescence; non-equilibrium; colloid; conjugated polymer
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This book entitled "Chemical Symmetry Breaking" is a collective volume of state-of-the-art reports on unique nonlinear chemical and physical symmetry-breaking phenomena that were experimentally observed upon a thermally or photochemically induced phase transition in various organic condens...