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Tuning the (Chir)Optical Properties and Squeezing out the Inherent Chirality in Polyphenylene-Locked Helical Carbon Nanorings

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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
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WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202103828

Keywords

circularly polarized luminescence; conjugation; inherent chirality; macrocycles; photophysics

Funding

  1. National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFA0402800]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21971229, 51772285, U1932214, 22022108, 21872130]

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This article reports the precise synthesis and tuning size-dependent (chir)optical properties of a new class of chiral PAHs-containing conjugated macrocycles. Efficient resolutions for chiral enantiomers were achieved by HPLC, and these macrocycles showed enriched size-dependent physical, chiral, and (chir)optical properties.
Distorting linear polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) out of planarity affects their physical properties and breaks their symmetry to induce inherent chirality. However, the chirality cannot be achieved in large distorted PAHs-based macrocycles due to a low racemization barrier for isomerization. Herein, we report the precise synthesis and tuning size-dependent (chir)optical properties of a new class of chiral PAHs-containing conjugated macrocycles (cyclo[n]paraphenylene-2,6-anthrylene, [n]CPPAn(2,6); n=6-8). Their inherent chiralities were squeezed out in small anthrylene-based macrocycles. Efficient resolutions for chiral enantiomers with (P)/(M)-helicity of small [6-7]CPPAns were achieved by HPLC. Interestingly, these macrocycles showed enriched size-dependent physical, chiral, and (chir)optical properties. Theoretical calculations indicate that these macrocycles have high strain energy (E-strain=60.8 to 73.4 kcal/mol) and very small E-gap (similar to 3.0 eV). Notably, these enantiomers showed strong chiroptical properties and dissymmetry factors (|g(abs)| and |g(lum)|similar to 0.01 for an enantiomer of [6]CPPAn(2,6)), which can give them potential applications in optically active materials.

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