Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jun 18, 2026

Preparation of a Corannulene-functionalized Hexahelicene by Copper(I)-catalyzed Alkyne-azide Cycloaddition of Nonplanar Polyaromatic Units
Published on: September 18, 2016
Luminescent bow-tie-shaped decaaryl[60]fullerene mesogens
Chang-Zhi Li1, Yutaka Matsuo, Eiichi Nakamura
1Nakamura Functional Carbon Cluster Project, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Abstract:
A pseudo-D(5d) symmetric decaaryl[60]fullerene molecule has a rigid bow-tie shape and bears an emissive [10]cyclophenacene chromophore in the middle. It forms a smectic liquid crystalline mesophase that persists over a wide temperature range (e.g., from 17 to 257 degrees C) and shows yellow photoluminescence both in solution and in the solid state (inset in the POM image). Because of the alignment of the cyclophenacene chromophore in the lamellas, the bulk liquid crystals exhibit anisotropic photoluminescence.
Related Concept Videos
Photoluminescence: Applications
Photoluminescence: Fluorescence and Phosphorescence
A pair of electrons in a...
