Cover Picture: Spontaneous Transmission of Chirality through Multiple Length Scales (Chem. Eur. J. 26/2011)

摘要

The hierarchical transfer of chirality in nature, from the nano-, to meso-, to macroscopic length scales, is very complex, and as of yet, not well understood. In their Full Paper on page?7205?ff., E.?C.?H. Sykes et?al. describe the self-assembly of an asymmetric, polyaromatic hydrocarbon that forms complex 2D chiral architectures as a function of molecular packing density when adsorbed on a copper surface. In the figure, the self-assembly of the molecule into discrete, nanoscale molecular domains is compared to the hexagonal stones of the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland.