1 Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, iChEM, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China. gangzou@ustc.edu.cn hongcy@ustc.edu.cn.
Herein, circularly polarized light is utilized to trigger an enantioselective polymerization reaction, resulting in the synthesis of an optically active polymer from racemic monomers in the absence of any chiral dopant or catalyst.