Cyclodextrins with Multiple Pyrenyl Groups: An Approach to Organic Molecules Exhibiting Bright Excimer Circularly Polarized Luminescence
Cyclodextrins with Multiple Pyrenyl Groups: An Approach to Organic Molecules Exhibiting Bright Excimer Circularly Polarized Luminescence
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.202114700
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发表时间:
2021-12-29
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16.6
通讯作者:
Kida, Toshiyuki
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作者:
Shigemitsu, Hajime;Kawakami, Kosei;Kida, Toshiyuki
We report a simple and effective approach to organic molecules exhibiting bright circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) by combining a chiral cyclic molecular scaffold and multiple excimer-enabling moieties. An alpha-cyclodextrin (CyD) scaffold was modified with six pyrenyl groups to obtain pyrene-cyclodextrins (PCDs) in a one-step synthesis from commercially available compounds. The PCDs exhibited high molar extinction coefficients (epsilon approximate to 10(5) M-1 cm(-1)), polarized emission with a good dissymmetry factor (|g(lum)|approximate to 10(-2)), and quantum yield (phi(f)approximate to 0.5). Owing to the excellent photophysical properties of the PCDs, the circularly polarized luminescence brightness (B-CPL) reached 340 M-1 cm(-1). Photophysical and chiroptical studies of the PCDs with only five pyrene units and with linkers of various lengths connecting the CyD with the pyrene units revealed that the formation of a pyrene excimer in a spatially crowded environment is crucial for CPL anisotropy. This study paves the way for the development of bright CPL organic molecules.