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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 144, Issue 24, Pages 10736-10742Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c00794
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [91961113, 21721001, 92061204, 21827801, 92061000, 21901217, 21934004, 21771152]
- Key projects of basic research plan of Yunnan Science and Technology Department [202101AS070049]
- Xiamen Youth Innovation Fund [3502Z20206054]
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In this study, a nitrogen-embedded quintuple helicene with an azapentabenzocorannulene core was synthesized and its structure was confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The compound exhibited redshifted absorption and emission spectra due to nitrogen-atom doping and effective hybridization between the helicene and azacorannulene. Furthermore, it demonstrated a significantly higher NIR fluorescence quantum efficiency compared to previous propeller-shaped multiple helicenes.
Herein, a nitrogen-embedded quintuple [7]helicene (N-Q7H) with an azapentabenzocorannulene core, which can be considered to be a helicene/azacorannulene hybrid pi-system, was synthesized from azapentabenzocorannulene in a three-step process. N-Q7H is the first example of a multiple helicene with an azabuckybowl core. Single-crystal X-ray diffractometry unambiguously confirmed the structure of the propeller-shaped hybrid pi-system. Owing to nitrogen-atom doping in the multiple helicenes and effective hybridization between the helicene and azacorannulene, N-Q7H exhibits considerably redshifted absorption and emission (yellow-to-green color change and green-to-near-infrared fluorescence change) relative to the azapentabenzocorannulene core. The broad absorption from the ultraviolet-visible to the NIR region is ascribable to the allowed transition between the highest occupied molecular orbital and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital after symmetry breaking, as revealed by density functional theory calculations. Compared to previous propeller-shaped multiple helicenes with corannulene or hexabenzocoronene (etc.) as cores, N-Q7H demonstrates a significantly higher NIR fluorescence quantum efficiency of 28%. Additionally, the chiral-resolution and redox properties of N-Q7H were investigated. The excellent photophysical and inherent chiral properties of N-Q7H suggest that azapentabenzocorannulene can be used as an outstanding nitrogen-embedded core to construct novel multiple helicenes with wide application potential, including as NIR fluorescent bio-probes.
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