Abstract
The synthesis and chiroptical properties of a series of enantiomerically pure, C2 -symmetrical carbo[6]helicene dimers are reported. Two helicene cores are connected through a buta-1,3-diyne-1,4-diyl linker or a heteroaromatic bridge and bear arylethynyl substituents at their 15-positions. This ensures the possibility of extended electronic communication throughout the whole molecule. The new chromophores exhibit intense ECD spectra with strong bands in the UV/Vis region well above 400 nm. The anisotropy factor gabs (defined as Δϵ/ϵ) reaches values up to 0.047, which are unusually large for single organic molecules. They also display blue fluorescence, with good quantum yields (Φf ∼0.25). The emitted light is circularly polarized to an outstanding extent: in some cases, the luminescence dissymmetry factor glum =2(IL -IR )/(IL +IR ) attains values of |0.025|. To the best of our knowledge, such values are among the highest ever reported for non-aggregated organic fluorophores.
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