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Exciton interactions in helical crystals of a hydrogen-bonded eumelanin monomer

Published:2022 Issue:8 Volume:13 Page:2331-2338
ISSN:2041-6520
Container-title:Chemical Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Chem. Sci.

Author:

Sasikumar Devika¹^ORCID,Vinod Kavya¹,Sunny Jeswin¹,Hariharan Mahesh¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Maruthamala P.O., Vithura, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, 695551, India

Abstract

Single crystals of DHI monomer, a eumelanin precursor, adopt an atypical chiral packing arrangement incorporating enantiomeric zig-zag helical stacks while its covalently connected DHI trimer forms double-helical crystals in the mesoscopic scale.

Funder

Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/SC/D1SC06755A

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