Small Figure-Eight Luminophores: Double-Twisted Tethered Cyclic Binaphthyls Boost Circularly Polarized Luminescence

Yuki Nojima; Masashi Hasegawa; Nobuyuki Hara; Yoshitane Imai; Yasuhiro Mazaki

doi:10.1002/chem.202100232

Small Figure-Eight Luminophores: Double-Twisted Tethered Cyclic Binaphthyls Boost Circularly Polarized Luminescence

Chemistry. 2021 Apr 1;27(19):5834. doi: 10.1002/chem.202100232. Epub 2021 Feb 14.

Authors

Yuki Nojima¹, Masashi Hasegawa¹, Nobuyuki Hara², Yoshitane Imai², Yasuhiro Mazaki¹

Affiliations

¹ Graduate School of Science, Kitasato University, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-0373, Japan.
² Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kindai University, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka, 577-8502, Japan.

PMID: 33586141
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202100232

Abstract

Invited for the cover of this issue are Masashi Hasegawa, Yoshitane Imai and co-workers at Kitasato University and Kindai University. The image depicts the reported figure-eight molecule as an M. C. Escher-inspired 'impossible object'. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.202005320.