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Masashi Hasegawa1, Chika Hasegawa1, Yuki Nagaya2
1Graduate School of Science, Kitasato University, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-0373, Japan.
Abstract:
Chiral macrocyclic dimers, trimers, and tetramers composed of paraphenylene and tethered binaphthyl were synthesized, and their molecular structures and chiroptical properties were investigated. X-ray analysis and theoretical calculations revealed that multiple twisted molecular structures - dimers, trimers, and tetramers - adopt figure-of-eight, Möbius triangle, and concave rectangle structures, respectively. These homologues have large ϵ values in their UV-vis absorption spectra because of the π-conjugation of the naphthalene-phenylene-naphthalene frameworks. Owing to the shape-persistent ring structure and tethering with -OCH2 CH2 O-, high fluorescence quantum yields and a relatively high dissymmetry factor gCPL in circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) spectra were achieved. This results in CPL brightness (BCPL ) of over 100, which is greater than that of the conventional organic CPL dye.
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