enantio-Enriched CPL-active helicene–bipyridine–rhenium complexes.

Authors :: Saleh, Nidal
Srebro, Monika
Reynaldo, Thibault
Vanthuyne, Nicolas
Toupet, Loïc
Chang, Victoria Y.
Muller, Gilles
Williams, J. A. Gareth
Roussel, Christian
Autschbach, Jochen
Crassous, Jeanne
Source :: Chemical Communications. 2015, Vol. 51 Issue 18, p3754-3757. 4p.
Publication Year :: 2015
Abstract: The incorporation of a rhenium atom within an extended helical π-conjugated bi-pyridine system impacts the chiroptical and photophysical properties of the resulting neutral or cationic complexes, leading to the first examples of rhenium-based phosphors that exhibit circularly polarized luminescence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]