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Chiral transcription in self-assembled tetrahedral Eu4L6 chiral cages displaying sizable circularly polarized luminescence

Yeung, Chi-Tung; Yim, King-Him; Wong, Ho-Yin; Pal, Robert; Lo, Wai-Sum; Yan, Siu-Cheong; Yee-Man Wong, Melody; Yufit, Dmitry; Smiles, Danil E.; McCormick, Laura J.; Teat, Simon J.; Shuh, David K.; Wong, Wing-Tak; Law, Ga-Lai

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Authors

Chi-Tung Yeung

King-Him Yim

Ho-Yin Wong

Wai-Sum Lo

Siu-Cheong Yan

Melody Yee-Man Wong

Danil E. Smiles

Laura J. McCormick

Simon J. Teat

David K. Shuh

Wing-Tak Wong

Ga-Lai Law



Abstract

Predictable stereoselective formation of supramolecular assembly is generally believed to be an important but complicated process. Here, we show that point chirality of a ligand decisively influences its supramolecular assembly behavior. We designed three closely related chiral ligands with different point chiralities, and observe their self-assembly into europium (Eu) tetrametallic tetrahedral cages. One ligand exhibits a highly diastereoselective assembly into homochiral (either ΔΔΔΔ or ΛΛΛΛ) Eu tetrahedral cages whereas the two other ligands, with two different approaches of loosened point chirality, lead to a significant breakdown of the diastereoselectivity to generate a mixture of (ΔΔΔΔ and ΛΛΛΛ) isomers. The cages are highly emissive (luminescence quantum yields of 16(1) to 18(1)%) and exhibit impressive circularly polarized luminescence properties (|glum|: up to 0.16). With in-depth studies, we present an example that correlates the nonlinear enhancement of the chiroptical response to the nonlinearity dependence on point chirality.

Citation

Yeung, C., Yim, K., Wong, H., Pal, R., Lo, W., Yan, S., …Law, G. (2017). Chiral transcription in self-assembled tetrahedral Eu4L6 chiral cages displaying sizable circularly polarized luminescence. Nature Communications, 8(1), Article 1128. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01025-1

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 11, 2017
Online Publication Date Oct 24, 2017
Publication Date Oct 24, 2017
Deposit Date Nov 7, 2017
Publicly Available Date Nov 7, 2017
Journal Nature Communications
Publisher Nature Research
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 8
Issue 1
Article Number 1128
DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01025-1

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