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Chain‐Length Dependence of the Optical Activity of Helical Triptycene‐Based π‐Conjugated Ladder Polymers
Ammenhäuser, Robin, Lupton, John M.
and Scherf, Ullrich
(2023)
Chain‐Length Dependence of the Optical Activity of Helical Triptycene‐Based π‐Conjugated Ladder Polymers.
Advanced Optical Materials 12 (1), p. 2301857.
Date of publication of this fulltext: 11 Mar 2025 13:57
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.75219
Abstract
Helical ladder polymers are designed by connecting planar indenofluorene chromophores by chiral triptycene linkers. The resulting hexagonal helices exhibit a substantial degree of homoconjugation across the triptycene knots, with saturation above ≈20 repeat units. The chiroptical anisotropy values gabs = Δε/ε of the lower-energy lobes of the red-most couplets in the circular dichroism (CD) ...
Helical ladder polymers are designed by connecting planar indenofluorene chromophores by chiral triptycene linkers. The resulting hexagonal helices exhibit a substantial degree of homoconjugation across the triptycene knots, with saturation above ≈20 repeat units. The chiroptical anisotropy values gabs = Δε/ε of the lower-energy lobes of the red-most couplets in the circular dichroism (CD) spectra arise from the π−π* transition of the planar indenofluorene chromophores and increase almost sevenfold when going from a model dimer to the corresponding polymeric helical ladder structures. This increase represents a signature of “chiral amplification” that is observed at the molecular, single-chain level. Here, the incorporated chiral linker units determine the chiroptical properties of the helical polymer chain, with chiral interactions arising across many achiral indenofluorene building blocks (>12). This behavior is observed for a fully covalently bound single polymer chain, in contrast to the more commonly studied supramolecular assemblies of appropriate chiral molecules.
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| Item type | Article | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Advanced Optical Materials | ||||
| Publisher: | Wiley | ||||
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| Open Access Type: | CC-License | ||||
| Volume: | 12 | ||||
| Number of Issue or Book Chapter: | 1 | ||||
| Page Range: | p. 2301857 | ||||
| Date | 16 October 2023 | ||||
| Institutions | Physics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics > Chair Professor Lupton > Group John Lupton | ||||
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Funded by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
(466652575)
Funded by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
(314695032)
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| Keywords | chiral amplification, circular dichroism, helical polymers, ladder polymers | ||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 500 Science > 530 Physics | ||||
| Status | Published | ||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Partially | ||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-752198 | ||||
| Item ID | 75219 |
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