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Helical aromatic imide based enantiomers with full-color circularly polarized luminescence
Meng Li1, Hai-Yan Lu2, Chao Zhang2
1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China. cchen@iccas.ac.cn.
Abstract:
Five pairs of enantiomers based on helical aromatic imides were synthesized, and their absolute configurations were determined using X-ray crystal structures. It was found that the enantiomers not only exhibited large Stokes shifts and high quantum yields, but also showed mirror image CD signals and full-color CPL properties.
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