An optically inactive poly(biphenylylacetylene) bearing an ester group at the 4¤-position of the pendants formed a preferredhanded helical conformation and biased axial chirality in the pendants through a noncovalent interaction with a chiral alcohol, both of which were retained (memorized) even after removal of the chiral alcohol. The chiral stationary phase for high-performance liquid chromatography, prepared by coating the polymer with macromolecular helicity memory on silica gel, showed good chiral recognition ability towards various racemates.Direct enantioseparation, using chiral stationary phases (CSPs), by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) has provided a promising method not only for performing microanalysis of chiral compounds but also for obtaining highly-pure enantiomers on the ton scale.1,2 Although a large number of CSPs have been developed, 3,4 it is still a challenging issue to switch the elution order of enantiomers without using the CSPs prepared from antipodal chiral materials despite their advantages both in analytical and preparative modes. 5,6 We recently reported that poly([2,2¤-bis(methoxymethoxy)-4¤-dodecyloxy-4-biphenylyl]acetylene) (poly(DOBA)) forms a preferred-handed helical conformation together with an excess of one of the axially twisted conformations in the biphenyl pendants, which occurs through the noncovalent interaction with an optically active alcohol ((R)-or (S)-1) both in solution and in the solid state. 7 The induced main-chain helicity and axial chirality can be maintained (or memorized) even after the removal of the chiral alcohol (Scheme 1). By using this unusual feature of poly(DOBA), we succeeded in developing a switchable CSP in which the elution order of the enantiomers could be switched at will on the basis of reversible switching and the subsequent memory of macromolecular helicity in poly(DOBA) by sequential treatment with (R)-and (S)-1 in the solid state.However, the chiral recognition ability of poly(DOBA) was not high. In this communication, we designed and synthesized a novel cis-transoidal poly(biphenylylacetylene) derivative bearing an ester group as an effective chiral recognition site instead of an ether group, poly([2,2¤-bis(methoxymethoxy)-4¤-butoxycarbonyl-4-biphenylyl]acetylene) (poly(BCBA)) (Scheme 1), and investigated the effects of the functional group at the 4¤-position of the biphenyl pendant on helicity induction and memory effect, and further the chiral recognition ability as a CSP for HPLC.Poly(BCBA) was synthesized by the polymerization of the corresponding biphenylylacetylene monomer (Scheme S1) with a rhodium catalyst ([Rh(nbd)Cl] 2 ; nbd: norbornadiene) in tetrahydrofuran in the presence of triethylamine in a similar method to that previously reported (Scheme S2).7 The stereoregularity of the obtained polymer was confirmed to be almost completely cis-transoidal by 1