Issue 14, 2023

A double heterohelicene composed of two benzo[b]phenothiazine exhibiting intense room-temperature circularly polarized phosphorescence

Abstract

In this work, we report a novel double N,S-hetero[5]helicene composed of two benzo[b]phenothiazines (2) that exhibits long-lived circularly polarized room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP). Compared with the previously reported N,O-analogue composed of two benzo[b]phenoxazines (1), 2 emitted more intense phosphorescence with a longer lifetime than 1 in a frozen solution at near liquid nitrogen temperature and even at room temperature when doped in a β-estradiol matrix. The intense and long-lived phosphorescence of 2 was fully explained by theoretical calculations. The optical resolution of 2 was successfully achieved, and the chiroptical properties of 2 were investigated. We found that 2 doped in a matrix exhibits strong dual circularly polarized luminescence originating from fluorescence (|gCPL| = 1.7 × 10−2) and long-lived phosphorescence (|gCPL| = 5 × 10−3, lifetime of 0.16 s, and Φp of 30%) at room temperature. 2 is a very rare example of a purely-organic helicene that exhibits long-lived circularly polarized RTP from a non-aggregated state.

Graphical abstract: A double heterohelicene composed of two benzo[b]phenothiazine exhibiting intense room-temperature circularly polarized phosphorescence

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 Mar 2023
Accepted
20 Mar 2023
First published
20 Mar 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023,11, 4846-4854

A double heterohelicene composed of two benzo[b]phenothiazine exhibiting intense room-temperature circularly polarized phosphorescence

S. Tanaka, D. Sakamaki, N. Haruta, T. Sato, M. Gon, K. Tanaka and H. Fujiwara, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023, 11, 4846 DOI: 10.1039/D3TC00871A

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