500-fold amplification of small molecule circularly polarised luminescence through circularly polarised FRET

Wade, Jessica, Brandt, Jochen R., Reger, David, Zinna, Franesco, Amsharov, Konstantin Y., Jux, Norbert, Andrews, David L. and Fuchter, Matthew J. (2021) 500-fold amplification of small molecule circularly polarised luminescence through circularly polarised FRET. Angewandte Chemie, 60 (1). pp. 222-227. ISSN 0044-8249

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Abstract

Strongly dissymmetric circularly polarised (CP) luminescence from small organic molecules could transform a range of technologies, such as display devices. However, highly dissymmetric emission is usually not possible with small organic molecules, which typically give dissymmetric factors of photoluminescence (gPL) less than 10-2. Here we describe an almost 103-fold chiroptical amplification of a π-extended superhelicene when embedded in an achiral conjugated polymer matrix. This combination increases the |gPL| of the superhelicene from approximately 3 × 10-4 in solution to 0.15 in a blend film in the solid-state. We propose that the amplification arises not simply through a chiral environment effect, but instead due to electrodynamic coupling between the electric and magnetic transition dipoles of the polymer donor and superhelicene acceptor, and subsequent CP Förster resonance energy transfer. We show that this amplification effect holds across several achiral polymer hosts and thus represents a simple and versatile approach to enhance the g-factors of small organic molecules.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Chemistry of Light and Energy Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Photonics and Quantum Science
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	05 Oct 2020 23:59
Last Modified:	09 Feb 2023 13:48
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/77124
DOI:	10.1002/anie.202011745

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