{"title":"Symmetry-Breaking Directed Assembly in Achiral Point Groups for Circularly Polarized Room-Temperature Phosphorescence.","authors":"Qihuan Li,Yizhou Song,Jiaqi He,Junsheng Zhang,Guo Zou,Yixiang Cheng","doi":"10.1002/adma.202511316","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Very recently, considerable attention has been given to pure organic circularly polarized room-temperature phosphorescent (CP-RTP) materials due to their unique photophysical properties. However, the directed construction of optically active phosphorescent signals within achiral systems remains a formidable challenge. In this study, two achiral crystals, 2CN4S and 2F4S, belonging to the achiral point groups 2/m and 1 ¯ $\\bar{1}$ , exhibit strong CP-RTP emission with high photoluminescence dissymmetry factors (glum) up to 5.5 × 10-2 (543 nm) and 4.3 × 10-2 (550 nm), respectively. This phenomenon is attributed to the intrinsic mirror-antiparallel molecular conformations induced by the targeted substitution of cyano/fluoro groups, which spontaneously assemble into symmetry-breaking helical superstructures through synergistic C─H···N hydrogen bonding and π-π interactions. This work not only establishes a novel approach for CP-RTP material design but also overcomes structural constraints in optically active materials within achiral point group systems.","PeriodicalId":114,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Materials","volume":"2 1","pages":"e11316"},"PeriodicalIF":26.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Advanced Materials","FirstCategoryId":"88","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202511316","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Very recently, considerable attention has been given to pure organic circularly polarized room-temperature phosphorescent (CP-RTP) materials due to their unique photophysical properties. However, the directed construction of optically active phosphorescent signals within achiral systems remains a formidable challenge. In this study, two achiral crystals, 2CN4S and 2F4S, belonging to the achiral point groups 2/m and 1 ¯ $\bar{1}$ , exhibit strong CP-RTP emission with high photoluminescence dissymmetry factors (glum) up to 5.5 × 10-2 (543 nm) and 4.3 × 10-2 (550 nm), respectively. This phenomenon is attributed to the intrinsic mirror-antiparallel molecular conformations induced by the targeted substitution of cyano/fluoro groups, which spontaneously assemble into symmetry-breaking helical superstructures through synergistic C─H···N hydrogen bonding and π-π interactions. This work not only establishes a novel approach for CP-RTP material design but also overcomes structural constraints in optically active materials within achiral point group systems.
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