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Published on: December 27, 2018
Low-Temperature Luminescence in Organic Helicenes: Singlet versus Triplet State Circularly Polarized Emission
Kais Dhbaibi1, Pierpaolo Morgante2, Nicolas Vanthuyne3
1Univ Rennes, CNRS, ISCR-UMR 6226, ScanMAT-UMS 2001, F-35000Rennes, France.
Abstract:
The experimental measurement of the photophysical and chiroptical properties of helicene-based π-conjugated emitters with electron-accepting (-CN, -py, -NO2) or donating (TMS, NMe2, NH2) moieties is reported at low temperature (77 K). The samples exhibit strong circularly polarized phosphorescence in frozen solution of 2-MeTHF, with a luminescence dissymmetry factor reaching 1.6 × 10-2 and a lifetime of over 0.46 s for the most active molecule, the nitro compound. The theoretical investigation shows that although the singlet (S1) and triplet (T1) excited-state emissions mainly arise from the helicene core, the rotatory strengths of the spin-allowed versus spin-forbidden emission have opposite signs. Further analysis of the spin-orbit coupling matrix elements shows that there is no strong mixing between S1 and T1, justifying the different signs of the rotatory strengths. In the case of the nitro compound, the enhanced phosphorescence emission is due to an efficient intersystem crossing.
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