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Chiral molecules are of great importance in nature. Most of the natural macromolecules consist of chiral monomers and are built from pure enantiomers in a very specific highly regular way. Some of the typical properties of such biomaterials are a consequence of the high stereospecificity of their main chain. Thus it is a great challenge for the synthetic polymer chemist to synthesize molecules similar to that natural building principle.
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Stelzer, F., Schitter, R., Steinhäusler, T. (1998). Optically Active Polymers via ROMP of Enantiomerically Pure Monomers. In: Imamoglu, Y. (eds) Metathesis Polymerization of Olefins and Polymerization of Alkynes. NATO ASI Series, vol 506. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5188-7_14
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