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  • Organic Chemistry
  • Materials Science
  • Photophysics

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  • Optically active molecules are crucial for developing advanced optical materials.
  • Triptycene derivatives offer rigid, well-defined molecular architectures.
  • Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) is a valuable property for chiroptical applications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To synthesize novel optically active triptycene-based molecules with hexabenzocoronene moieties.
  • To investigate the optical and chiroptical properties, specifically circularly polarized luminescence (CPL).
  • To understand the structural requirements for achieving CPL in these molecules.

Main Methods:

  • Synthesis of optically active triptycene derivatives ((R,R)-1 and (S,S)-1) and a precursor (2).
  • Optical and chiroptical characterization, including measurement of luminescence dissymmetry factors.
  • Comparative study with a related triptycene derivative (2) to elucidate structure-property relationships.
  • Investigation of crystallization behavior of the racemic mixture (rac-1).

Main Results:

  • Successful synthesis of novel optically active triptycene-based molecules containing hexabenzocoronene units.
  • Demonstrated emission of preferred-handed circularly polarized light (CPL) with luminescence dissymmetry factors of ~1.0 × 10-3.
  • Identified the ladder-type rigid structure and asymmetrically bent geometry as critical for CPL.
  • Showed that rac-1 undergoes conglomerate crystallization, enabling CPL production from random crystal selection.

Conclusions:

  • The synthesized triptycene-based molecules are effective emitters of circularly polarized light.
  • Molecular architecture, particularly rigidity and asymmetry, is essential for inducing CPL.
  • Conglomerate crystallization of racemic mixtures offers a practical route to CPL-generating materials.