Chiral BINAPO-Controlled Diastereoselective Self-Assembly and Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Triple-Stranded Europium(III) Podates

Chiral lanthanide helical architectures have received intense attentions in recent years because of their potential applications as chiral probes and sensors and as circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) materials. However, stereoselectivity control in the self-assembly of lanthanide helicate is challenging due to the poor stereochemical preference and variable coordination numbers of Ln(III) ions. Herein, we reported the employing chiral ancillary ligand R/S-BINAPO to induce achiral tripodal ligand to form a pair of homochiral lanthanide triple-helical podates [Eu(TTEA)((R/S)-BINAPO); R/S-1] {(R/S)-BINAPO = (R/S)-2,2'-bis-(diphenylphosphoryl)-1,1'-binaphthyl; TTEA = tris[(4-(4,4,4-trifluoro-1,3-dioxobutyl)-benzamido)ethyl] amine}. X-ray crystallographic analysis for rac-1 reveals that the chirality of BINAPO is transferred during the self-assembly process to give either P or M helical architectures in podates. The H-1 and P-31 NMR and circular dichroism measurements confirm the diastereopurity of the assemblies in solution. A detailed optical and chiroptical characterization reveals that the luminescent enantiopure podates not only exhibit intense CPL with vertical bar g(lum)vertical bar values reaching 0.072 but also show high luminescence quantum yields of 32.8%. Our results provide a feasible strategy for designing homochiral helical lanthanide supramolecular architecture and synthesizing excellent CPL materials.