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Pablo Reiné1, Jose Justicia1, Sara P Morcillo1
1Department of Organic Chemistry , University of Granada , Avenida de la Fuente Nueva , 18071 Granada , Spain.
Abstract:
In this manuscript, we report the first synthesis of an organic monomolecular emitter, which behaves as a circularly polarized luminescence (CPL)-based ratiometric probe. The enantiopure helical ortho-oligo(phenylene)ethynylene ( o-OPE) core has been prepared by a new and efficient macrocyclization reaction. The combination of such o-OPE helical skeleton and a pyrene couple leads to two different CPL emission features in a single structure whose ratio linearly responds to silver(I) concentration.
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