Yeung, Chi-Tung and Yim, King-Him and Wong, Ho-Yin and Pal, Robert and Lo, Wai-Sum and Yan, Siu-Cheong and Yee-Man Wong, Melody and Yufit, Dmitry and Smiles, Danil E. and McCormick, Laura J. and Teat, Simon J. and Shuh, David K. and Wong, Wing-Tak and Law, Ga-Lai (2017) 'Chiral transcription in self-assembled tetrahedral Eu4L6 chiral cages displaying sizable circularly polarized luminescence.', Nature communications., 8 (1). p. 1128.
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.
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| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01025-1 |
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| Date accepted: | 11 August 2017 |
| Date deposited: | 07 November 2017 |
| Date of first online publication: | 24 October 2017 |
| Date first made open access: | 07 November 2017 |
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