This paper describes the characterization of solvent induced folding behavior for non-polar (NP) alkoxy substituted ortho-phenylene ethynylene (o-PE) oligomers. Oligomers of lengths up to nine units have been shown to adopt helical conformations in heptane by NMR and CD spectroscopy, while chloroform promotes extended conformations. Surprisingly, the molar ellipticity values found in heptane for these oligomers are very small compared to other literature values of meta-phenylene ethynylene (m-PE) folded systems; however, comparable molar ellipticity values were found for a closed macrocyclic o-PE suggesting the weak ellipticity is a molecular-feature rather than a quality of folding indicator.
                                    本文描述了非极性 (NP) 烷氧基取代的邻亚苯基
乙炔基 (o-PE) 低聚物的溶剂诱导折叠行为的表征。通过核磁共振和圆二色光谱法显示,长度最多为九个单元的低聚物在
庚烷中采用螺旋构象,而
氯仿则促进延伸构象。令人惊讶的是,与间亚苯基
乙炔(m-PE)折叠系统的其他文献值相比,在
庚烷中发现的这些低聚物的摩尔椭圆率值非常小;然而,对于闭合大环o-PE,发现了类似的摩尔椭圆率值,这表明弱椭圆率是一种分子特征,而不是折叠指标的质量。