Helicenes: Chiral Platforms with Fascinating Properties
Jeanne Crassous a
a Univ Rennes, ENSCR, INSA Rennes, CNRS, ISCR - UMR 6226, F-35000 Rennes, France.
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of MATSUS Fall 2023 Conference (MATSUSFall23)
#ELMOL - The future of molecular electronics
Torremolinos, Spain, 2023 October 16th - 20th
Organizer: Rachel Kilbride
Invited Speaker, Jeanne Crassous, presentation 314
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsus.2023.314
Publication date: 18th July 2023

Ortho-fused aromatic rings form helically shaped chiral molecules such as carbo[6]helicenes, that wind in a left-handed (M) or a right-handed (P) sense.[1-3] The helical topology combined with extended pi-conjugation provides helicenes with peculiar properties such as strong photophysical and chiroptical properties (high optical rotation values, intense electronic circular dichroism - CD, and circularly polarized emission - CPL). The molecular engineering of helicenes using organometallic and heteroaromatic chemistries offers a convenient way to tune the properties of these helically shaped ligands. Indeed, their combination with metallic or organic assembling units leads to chiral materials with appealing properties (circularly polarized phosphorescence, magnetochirality, spin selectivity). Applications in materials science (Circularly Polarized OLEDs, Chiroptical Switches, Spintronics) are targetd. A set of representative examples will be presented while emphasizing the specific features of each system. When possible, theoretical calculations enable to shed light on the phenomena (exciton coupling chirality, singlet or triplet excited state features, molecular orbitals involvement, dissymmetry factors improvement, ...).[4-6]

Financial support from the French National Research Agency (ANR) (iChiralight, ANR-19-CE07-0040 and SMMCPL, ANR-19-CE29-0012-02) and the European Commission Research Executive Agency (Grant Agreement number: 859752 − HEL4CHIROLED − H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019).
 

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