Polymer Bulletin, Vol.59, No.4, 481-489, 2007
Helical polymers from optically active epoxides with bulky pendants
The backbone of polyethers are often flexible because of inherent characteristics of ether linkage, but polyethers from chiral epoxides could form stable one-handed helical structure in solution state, if the pendants on the chain of polyethers are enough bulky and the distance between pendants and main chain is appropriate.