A chiral propeller-shaped triple helicene shows multi-resonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence

Jingxiang Wang, Jhon Sebastian Oviedo Ortiz, Aidan McKay, David Bradford Cordes, Jeanne Crassous, Eli Zysman-Colman*

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Abstract

Multi-resonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MR-TADF) helicenes show great potential as chiral emitters due to their typically high photoluminescence quantum yield and that they emit circularly polarized luminescence. Here, a new propeller-shaped chiral MR TADF helicene DiKTa3, integrating three DiKTa moieties, was designed and synthesized aiming to achieve co-parallel electronic and magnitude transition dipole moments that would lead to a high dissymmetry factor, g. It emits at λPL of 491 nm, with a full width at half maximum of 52 nm and has a moderate ΔEST value of 0.24 eV in toluene. The separated (P,P,P) enantiomer shows an absorption dissymmetry factor |gabs| of 6.8 × 10-4 23 at 450 nm, which results from a lower symmetry conformation adopted by the compound in solution than the C3-symmetric optimized structure. This work highlights the strong influence that geometry can
have on the chiroptical properties of the emitter.
Original languageEnglish
Article numbere202400129
Number of pages11
JournalHelvetica Chimica Acta
VolumeEarly View
Early online date31 Oct 2024
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 31 Oct 2024

Keywords

  • Chirality
  • Helicene
  • Circular dichronism
  • Circularly polarized lumninescence
  • Multi-resonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence

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