Expanding #helicene chemistry🌀 Milan Kivala & co-workers report a π-expanded [5]helicene featuring a seven-membered tropone unit—revealing a highly twisted structure, lowered racemization barrier, and key insights from X-ray and DFT studies🧪
#nanographene

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Excited to share our latest work on Helical PAHs! 🌪️
We show how the migration of Clar’s aromatic sextets dictates stiffness, dynamics, and optical properties. A story of "π-cramped" structures and tunable gaps.
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#ChemRxiv #helicene #chirality

Achieving Control Over Light Properties with the Length of Molecules: Systematic Synthesis of Chirality in Helicine Molecules Recent research showcases a novel method for systematically synthesizing chiral helicene molecules, revealing new insights into controlling light properties via molecular length.

Achieving Control Over Light Properties with the Length of Molecules: Systematic Synthesis of Chirality in Helicine Molecules #Japan #Tokyo #CPL #Helicene #Chiral_Molecule