Citation: Wenying Cui, Zhetong Jin, Wentao Fu, Chengshuo Shen. Flag-hinge-like highly luminescent chiral nanographenes with twist geometry[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2024, 35(11): 109667. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2024.109667 shu

Flag-hinge-like highly luminescent chiral nanographenes with twist geometry

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310000, China

shenchengshuo@zstu.edu.cn

Received Date: 13 December 2023
Revised Date: 4 February 2024
Accepted Date: 22 February 2024
Available Online: 23 February 2024

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Nanographenes (NGs) with twisted backbones are emerging as new candidates for chiroptical materials. In this work, we describe a new strategy for synthesizing a [10]twistacene-embedded NG which exhibits a rare flag-hinge-like geometry. By neatly creating steric crowding on the [6]helicene breaches of the NG skeleton, the synthesis only provided homochiral isomers without generating the "meso‑" isomer. The formed NGs showed high luminescence with quantum yield up to 52%, and promising circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) performance with |g_lum| up to 5.0 × 10⁻³. Besides, these NGs also showed outstanding CPL brightness (B_CPL) up to 305 L mol⁻¹ cm⁻¹ among chiral NGs.
- Nanographene,
- Twistacene,
- Helicenes,
- Chirality,
- Circularly polarized luminescence
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