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Octagon-Embedded Carbohelicene as a Chiral Motif for Circularly Polarized Luminescence Emission of Saddle-Helix Nanographenes

Miguel A. Medel

Miguel A. Medel

Departamento de Química Orgánica, Unidad de Excelencia de Química (UEQ), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain

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Dr. Rubén Tapia

Dr. Rubén Tapia

Departamento de Química Orgánica, Unidad de Excelencia de Química (UEQ), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain

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Dr. Victor Blanco

Dr. Victor Blanco

Departamento de Química Orgánica, Unidad de Excelencia de Química (UEQ), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain

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Dr. Delia Miguel

Dr. Delia Miguel

Departamento de Fisicoquímica, Facultad de Farmacia, UEQ, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

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Dr. Sara P. Morcillo

Corresponding Author

Dr. Sara P. Morcillo

Departamento de Química Orgánica, Unidad de Excelencia de Química (UEQ), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain

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Dr. Araceli G. Campaña

Corresponding Author

Dr. Araceli G. Campaña

Departamento de Química Orgánica, Unidad de Excelencia de Química (UEQ), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain

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First published: 18 December 2020
Citations: 28

Abstract

We report a new family of hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene (HBC)-based helical nanographenes incorporating π-extended carbo[5]helicenes bearing an octagonal carbocycle. This family represents a new kind of highly distorted saddle-helix hybrid nanographenes. For the first time, the eight-membered ring becomes a constituent of both a carbo[5]helicene and a HBC and thus, the negative curvature is responsible for twisting both units. This novel chiral motif, namely, oct-[5]helicene results in the largest torsion angle recorded so far for a carbo[5]helicene (θ=79.5°), as it has been suggested by DFT-calculations and confirmed by X-ray crystallography. Consequently, the barriers of isomerization become exceptionally high for a [5]helicene unsubstituted in the fjord region since neither racemization nor decomposition were observed at 200 °C for 1 or 3 during 5 h. Therefore, racemic resolutions allowed subsequent chiroptical studies showing the ECD and CPL responses of this novel family of chiral nanographenes.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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