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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Different communication mechanisms can be switched within a copolymer by acting on the conformational composition of the components and their chirality. Thus, a sergeant and soldiers effect is produced in two diastereomeric copolymer series, poly[(S)‐<jats:bold>1</jats:bold><jats:sub>r</jats:sub>‐co‐(S)‐<jats:bold>2</jats:bold><jats:sub>(1−r)</jats:sub>] and poly[(R)‐<jats:bold>1</jats:bold><jats:sub>r</jats:sub>‐co‐(S)‐<jats:bold>2</jats:bold><jats:sub>(1−r)</jats:sub>], owing to the presence in chloroform of a preferred conformation in (S)‐<jats:bold>2</jats:bold>, and a conformational equilibrium in <jats:bold>1</jats:bold>, where a <jats:italic>P</jats:italic> helix is induced independently of the absolute configuration of the soldier. In THF, the presence of a conformational equilibrium at the pendants of the two components produces a reciprocal chiral enhancement effect by copolymerization of the two monomers, while in DMF, a third chiral to chiral communication switch is produced due to the presence of a single conformer at the pendant group of the two components. In such a case, a chiral conflict or chiral accord effect is produced depending if the two components induce the same or the opposite helical sense.</jats:p>