Triarylborane-based [5]Helicenes with Full-Color Circularly Polarized Luminescence

Org Lett. 2019 Dec 6;21(23):9569-9573. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03734. Epub 2019 Nov 11.

Abstract

The efficient synthetic route was disclosed to prepare optically active triarylborane-based [5]helicenes, 7B-PhHC and 7B5N-PhHC. Their emission wavelengths are tunable by both the chemical structure modification and the tuning of excited state charge transfer dynamics via selection of appropriate solvents or addition of external F-, enabling the full-color circularly polarized luminescence with moderate to good quantum yields (0.07-0.51) and high luminescence dissymmetry factors (glum > 5 × 10-3).