Stereochemistry and Twisted Crystals

This review article discusses a link between stereochemistry and structural morphological chirality. We present the remarkably frequent, but less often reported, growth of twisted crystals discuss reasons for their formation ways to favor growth. The more commonly encountered conglomerates racemic compounds can be formed by achiral molecules, emergence chirality is not considered in this context perhaps deserves attention. Twisted are known wide variety materials, molecular macromolecular, complexes oxides, so on. In growing crystals, twisting lamellae because strain generated during eventually unwinds larger objects, may detected. kind chiral morphology arising from low symmetry growth, challenges opportunities research area, highlighted. particular, bending supramolecular aggregates solution or at interfaces, nanofilaments liquid polymers, discussed.