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Observation of chiral aggregate growth of perylene derivative in opaque solution by circularly polarized luminescence
Hiroyuki Tsumatori1, Takuya Nakashima, Tsuyoshi Kawai
1Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, NAIST, 8916-5, Takayama-cho, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Nara, Japan.
Organic Letters
|April 22, 2010
Abstract:
The concentration-dependent enhancement of the luminescence dissymmetry factor has suggested that pi-conjugated chiral perylene derivatives in a high concentrated opaque solution grow to aggregated structures with higher optical chirality.
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