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The realization of persistent luminescence and in particular circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) of organic radicals remains a challenge due to their sensitivity to oxygen at ambient conditions and elusive excited state chirality control. Here, it is reported that UV‐irradiation on a supramolecular gel from a chiral triarylamine derivative, TPA‐Ala, led to the formation of luminescent radicals with bright CPL. TPA‐Ala can form an organogel in chloroform with blue emission and supramolecular chirality as demonstrated by both CD and CPL signals. Upon UV 365 nm irradiation, an emission color change from blue to cyan is observed due to the formation of photo‐induced radicals. Interestingly, it is found that the supramolecular gel radicals showed stable luminescence with a lifetime ≈ 10 days in dark environments and inverted CPL, which represents a scarce example with persistent CPL from doublet‐state due to oxygen isolation ability of the gel network. Furthermore, doping a guest dye, Rhodamine B (RhB), into the supramolecular gel (RhB/TPA‐Ala = 30% in molar ratio) successfully obtained a transient white‐light CPL through the superposition of photo‐induced radical and guest dye emissions. This work provides a useful methodology for the fabrication of radical‐based CPL materials via a supramolecular assembly approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Novel axial chiral biscarboline amide 7 provided high up to 98%ee in asymmetric hydrogenation reactions of β-enamine esters and ketimines. A series of new axial chiral biscarboline ethers were synthesized using L-tryptophan aminoacid after dehydrogenation and oxidations using m -CPBA. These diastereoisomers can be obtained by column chromatography and used as catalysts in asymmetric hydrogenation reactions of β-enamine esters and ketimines. Chiral catalysts 6 and 7 exhibited very high enantioselectivity in the reactions. For example, high up to 98%ee was achieved in the enantioselective hydrogenations when only 1%mol of catalyst was used. Highly efficient axially biscarboline ethers as catalysts used in 1,2- and 1,4-transfer hydrogenations of ketimines and β-enamino esters [Display omitted] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]