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Riddhi Gupta1, Trevor A Cabreros2, Gilles Muller2
1Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara 390 002, INDIA.
Abstract:
Optically pure dicyano oxa[7]helicenes and helicene-like molecules have been prepared and investigated for their optical behavior. The isomers of the intermediate 4,4'-biphen-anthrene-3,3'-diol were resolved by physically separating their 1-menthyl carbonate derivatives. In this work a mild method was developed to cleave ArOMe in presence of a cyano group. The optical rotation of atropisomeric diol, helicenes-like compounds and the oxa[7]helicenes was observed to be in increasing order, while the molecules also showed good response to circularly polarized luminescence.
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