The ability of molecules, chiral by virtue of the presence of an s-butyl group, to display conformational polymorphism has been exploited for the performance of asymmetric syntheses of either sense on the same chiral molecule; this phenomenon is illustrated for the asymmetric solid-state polymerization of the monomer (R)-(–)-(1).
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Mil et al. (1982) studied this question.