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Photo-Switching of Circularly Polarized Luminescence

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Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Isolated Small Organic Molecules

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Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) emission from chiral molecular systems is readily switched by means of external stimuli such as temperature, solvent, chemicals, and light irradiation. Since CPL is one of the emission phenomena, it can be modulated in a similar manner to the emission switching. The ON-OFF switching of emission intensity of chiral molecular systems may simply lead to the modulation of CPL intensity. Apart from the modulation of emission intensity, the chiral structures including chiral arrangement of fluorophores or metal coordination geometries are switched by external stimuli, changing the dissymmetry factors, i.e., the quality of CPL. In this chapter, we review the design of chiroptical photo-switches based on photochromic molecules that modulate the CPL property in response to photo-irradiation in a dynamic manner.

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Nakashima, T., Kawai, T. (2020). Photo-Switching of Circularly Polarized Luminescence. In: Mori, T. (eds) Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Isolated Small Organic Molecules. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2309-0_8

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