Synthesis of N-doped chiral macrocycles by regioselective palladium-catalyzed arylation

• Shuhai Qiu and
• Junzhi Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 1917–1923, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.149

• through circular dichroism (CD) and circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) spectroscopy. Results and Discussion The syntheses of N-doped macrocycles MC1–3 are shown in Scheme 1. Diamines 1a and 1b were synthesized by double Pd-catalyzed C–N coupling reaction of 4,6-dichlorobenzene-1,3-diamine with phenyl

Chiral phosphoric acid-catalyzed asymmetric synthesis of helically chiral, planarly chiral and inherently chiral molecules

• Wei Liu and
• Xiaoyu Yang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 1864–1889, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.145

• molecular platforms in various applications, such as circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) materials, chiral liquid crystals and asymmetric catalysis. Currently, the asymmetric catalytic synthesis of helicenes predominantly revolves around transition metal-catalyzed asymmetric annulation reactions

Synthesis of optically active folded cyclic dimers and trimers

• Ena Kumamoto,
• Kana Ogawa,
• Kazunori Okamoto and
• Yasuhiro Morisaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 1603–1612, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.124

• structures, such as one-handed helical and propeller-shaped structures, can be constructed by folding the π-conjugated system using [2.2]paracyclophane as the chiral crossing unit, leading to circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) properties. Chiral cyclic dimers and trimers were synthesized using planar

• with CHCl3 as a solvent at room temperature. Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) spectra were recorded on a JASCO CPL-300 with CHCl3 as a solvent at room temperature. Materials Commercially available compounds used without purification are as follows: Pd2(dba)3, SPhos (2-dicyclohexylphosphino-2',6

• , enantiopure [2.2]paracyclophane was used as a chiral monomer to prepare optically active conjugated polymers and cyclic trimers [21], in which π-electron systems were stacked to form zigzag and triangular structures, respectively. The conjugated polymers and cyclic trimers exhibited circularly polarized

Wittig reaction of cyclobisbiphenylenecarbonyl

• Taito Moribe,
• Junichiro Hirano,
• Hideaki Takano,
• Hiroshi Shinokubo and
• Norihito Fukui

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 1454–1461, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.107

• . Consequently, figure-eight molecules often exhibit fascinating properties, such as unusual rearrangement reactions [9] and efficient circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) [10][11][12]. Cyclobisbiphenylenecarbonyl (CBBC) 1 is a figure-eight macrocycle, which is readily synthesized from commercially available

• peripherally modified CBBC derivatives have also been prepared and were shown to have fascinating properties [17][18][19][20][21]. For example, carbazole-substituted donor–acceptor-type CBBC derivatives exhibit both efficient circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) and thermally activated delayed fluorescence

Advances in nitrogen-containing helicenes: synthesis, chiroptical properties, and optoelectronic applications

• Meng Qiu,
• Jing Du,
• Nai-Te Yao,
• Xin-Yue Wang and
• Han-Yuan Gong

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 1422–1453, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.106

• versatile scaffolds for chiral optoelectronic applications. The incorporation of nitrogen enables precise modulation of electronic structures, redox characteristics, and intermolecular interactions, thereby enhancing performance in circularly polarized luminescence (CPL), thermally activated delayed

• , emphasizing their potential as next-generation chiral optoelectronic materials and outlining future directions toward multifunctional integration and quantum technological applications. Keywords: azahelicene; chiroptical properties; circularly polarized luminescence (CPL); heteroatom containing

• in applications such as organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) [8], circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) [9], and chiral photocatalysis [10]. In the past decade, heteroatom-containing helicenes have attracted increasing attention due to their tunable optoelectronic properties and potential

Switchable molecular tweezers: design and applications

• Pablo Msellem,
• Maksym Dekthiarenko,
• Nihal Hadj Seyd and
• Guillaume Vives

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 504–539, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.45

• enantiomers (P,P) and (M,M) were separated by chiral HPLC and displayed opposite circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) and electronic circular dichroism (ECD) properties. The addition of ZnCl2 switched the system from a compact conformation to an extended conformation, resulting in a modulation of the

Construction of hexabenzocoronene-based chiral nanographenes

• Ranran Li,
• Di Wang,
• Shengtao Li and
• Peng An

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 736–751, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.54

• to the molecules which cannot be superimposed on their own mirror image. Nanomaterials with chiroptical properties have shown potential applications in different fields such as optical devices, polarization-based information encryption, circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) lasers, or biosensing

• compound at 200 °C for 5 h, which gives a lower limit to the barrier of racemization of ΔG > 38.3 kcal mol−1 at 473 K. The circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) of these structures were also evaluated with the luminescence dissymmetry factors (glum) values of 4 × 10−4 for compound 11 and 7 × 10−4 for

• , respectively by DFT calculation. The enantiopure isomers of the π-extended helicenes were evaluated as excellent circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) emitters with a glum of 7.44 × 10−3 for 37, which is around 10-fold higher than 35. Chiral “HBC-dimers” and “HBC trimers” The combination of two or more HBCs

Phenanthridine–pyrene conjugates as fluorescent probes for DNA/RNA and an inactive mutant of dipeptidyl peptidase enzyme

• Josipa Matić,
• Tana Tandarić,
• Marijana Radić Stojković,
• Filip Šupljika,
• Zrinka Karačić,
• Ana Tomašić Paić,
• Lucija Horvat,
• Robert Vianello and
• Lidija-Marija Tumir

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 550–565, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.40

• the pyrene unit as well as combinations of pyrene with other aromatic fluorophores could improve the properties [7]. Recently, Takaishi et al. reported chiral exciplex dyes having pyrenyl, perylenyl, and 4-(dimethylamino)phenyl groups incorporated in their structure, which showed circularly polarized

• luminescence (CPL). The exciplex (excited heterodimer) formed intramolecularly proved to be conformationally rigid and consequently was not sensitive to solvent or temperature [8]. Further, pyrenoimidazole-fused phenanthridines have been reported recently, developed as fluorescence emitters for optoelectronic

Thiophene/selenophene-based S-shaped double helicenes: regioselective synthesis and structures

• Mengjie Wang,
• Lanping Dang,
• Wan Xu,
• Zhiying Ma,
• Liuliu Shao,
• Guangxia Wang,
• Chunli Li and
• Hua Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 809–817, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.81

• carbohelicenes has led to the synthesis of double, triple, quadruple, quintuple, and sextuple molecules, the chiro-optical properties of these molecules, such as their circular dichroism (CD) and circularly polarized luminescence (CPL), have also been widely studied [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. The development of

Circularly polarized luminescent systems fabricated by Tröger's base derivatives through two different strategies

• Cheng Qian,
• Yuan Chen,
• Qian Zhao,
• Ming Cheng,
• Chen Lin,
• Juli Jiang and
• Leyong Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 52–57, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.6

• and applied in practice [4][5][6]. Among them, the fluorescent materials emitting circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) have attracted intensive interest owing to their wide applications in various researching fields including 3D displays, chiroptical materials, and so on [7][8][9][10]. Circular

• dichroism (CD) absorption spectra reflect the chirality of the fluorescent materials in the ground state, and circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) spectra reflect the chirality of fluorescent materials in the excited electronic state. Therefore, the CD and CPL spectrum are the two most important tools to

Bipyrrole boomerangs via Pd-mediated tandem cyclization–oxygenation. Controlling reaction selectivity and electronic properties

• Liliia Moshniaha,
• Marika Żyła-Karwowska,
• Joanna Cybińska,
• Piotr J. Chmielewski,
• Ludovic Favereau and
• Marcin Stępień

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 895–903, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.81

• polarized luminescence (CPL) measurements performed for enantioenriched samples of cNMI3H reveled weak signals of opposite signs, with a maximum at ca. 570 nm consistent with the unpolarized luminescence of this system (Supporting Information File 1, Figure S6). The CPL signals rapidly decayed during the

• cNMI3H were configurationally most stable, showing no loss of their optical activity over the course of several hours in solution. Their CD spectra could be satisfactorily correlated with the TD-DFT data obtained for the cNMI3H enantiomers (Supporting Information File 1, Figures S5 and S22). Circularly

Synthesis and circularly polarized luminescence properties of BINOL-derived bisbenzofuro[2,3-b:3’,2’-e]pyridines (BBZFPys)

• Ryo Takishima,
• Yuji Nishii,
• Tomoaki Hinoue,
• Yoshitane Imai and
• Masahiro Miura

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 325–336, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.32

• fluorophore unit in certain light-emitting functional materials (Scheme 1) [14]. Meanwhile, organic optoelectronic materials with circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) characteristics have attracted significant research interests in recent years [18][19][20][21] for their potential applications in three

Polarization spectroscopy methods in the determination of interactions of small molecules with nucleic acids – tutorial

• Tamara Šmidlehner,
• Ivo Piantanida and
• Gennaro Pescitelli

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 84–105, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.5

• , which is ideal for the selective study of DNA ligands that strongly change fluorescence upon binding [3]. In a sense complementary to FDCD, also circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) is a chiroptical emission technique which has been employed in the same context for the first time recently [12]. The