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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 116, Issue 22, Pages 5349-5352Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp300352n
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-0848596]
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0848596] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We report on the single-molecule chiroptical properties of right-handed bridged triaryl amine helicene dimers, MH2. Using an experimental setup to precisely define the circular excitation polarization at the sample plane, we investigated the circular dichroic response in luminescence from individual molecules in which induced ellipticity from microscope optics is minimized. Our results comparing circular anisotropies in fluorescence excitation from MH2 and perylene diimide (PDI), an achiral, centrosymmetric chromophore, demonstrate a significant reduction in the breadth of the distribution of circular dissymmetry parameters obtained from modulation of the circularly polarized excitation source (457 nm). For PDI, we observe a symmetric distribution of circular anisotropy parameters centered about zero, with a fwhm of 0.25. For MH2, we observe an asymmetric distribution peaked at g = -0.09, with a slightly larger width as the corresponding PDI distribution. These results indicate that the large dissymmetry parameters (vertical bar g vertical bar > 0.5) in fluorescence excitation described in our original report (Hassey, R; et al. Chirality 2008, 20, 1039-1046 and Hassey, R.; et al. Science 2006, 314, 1437-1439) were indeed affected by (at the time, unknown) linear polarization artifacts. However, the present results on MH2 provide compelling evidence for single-molecule circular dissymmetries much larger than solution or thin-film ensemble values, defined primarily by the enhanced rotatory strength (relative to the monomer), and restricted orientation at the sample surface.
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