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Area of Science:

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Materials Science
  • Spectroscopy

Background:

  • Chiral molecular switches are crucial for advanced optical applications.
  • Developing materials with tunable chiroptical properties remains a significant challenge.
  • Previous PDI-based materials have shown promise but lacked broad wavelength response and high switching amplitude.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To synthesize and characterize a novel chiral molecular redox switch based on PDI-based twistacenes.
  • To investigate the chiroptical switching behavior of the new material over a broad wavelength range.
  • To explore the potential of this material for solid-state applications.

Main Methods:

  • Synthesis of chiral PDI-based twistacene dimer (cPDI[2]).
  • Spectroscopic analysis including UV-Vis and Circular Dichroism (CD).
  • Electrochemical reduction and characterization of switching behavior.
  • Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations.

Main Results:

  • cPDI[2] exhibits high-intensity and broadband chiral response (UV-Vis-NIR).
  • Facile, stable, and reversible multistate chiroptical switching is observed near 700 nm.
  • Significant increase in CD response upon reduction (|ΔΔε| > 300 M⁻¹ cm⁻¹ at 960 nm) with high dissymmetry factor (3 × 10⁻²).
  • DFT calculations elucidate the origin of the long-wavelength CD signal.

Conclusions:

  • cPDI[2] functions as a unique chiroptic switch with exceptional performance.
  • The material's molecular contortion facilitates ionic diffusion for solid-state switching.
  • High dissymmetry factors and NIR response position cPDI[2] for advanced chiroptical devices.