Fusing perylene diimide with helicenes
Si Tong Bao, Haoyu Jiang, Zexin Jin, Colin Nuckolls
Abstract
Incorporating perylene diimide (PDI) units into helicene structures has become a useful strategy for giving access to non-planar electron acceptors as well as a method of creating molecules with unique and intriguing chiroptical properties. This minireview describes this fusion of PDIs with helicenes.
Topics & Concepts
PeryleneDiimideChemistryHeliceneFusionMoleculePlanarNanotechnologyOrganic chemistryComputer sciencePhilosophyMaterials scienceLinguisticsComputer graphics (images)Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic CompoundsPhotochromic and Fluorescence ChemistryPhotoreceptor and optogenetics research