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Chiral Materials: Fullerene Desymmetrization as a Means to Achieve Single‐Enantiomer Electron Acceptors with Maximized Chiroptical Responsiveness (Adv. Mater. 1/2021)
Author(s) -
Shi Wenda,
Salerno Francesco,
Ward Matthew D.,
SantanaBonilla Alejandro,
Wade Jessica,
Hou Xueyan,
Liu Tong,
Dennis T. John S.,
Campbell Alasdair J.,
Jelfs Kim E.,
Fuchter Matthew J.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.202170007
Subject(s) - fullerene , enantiomer , photocurrent , materials science , desymmetrization , electron acceptor , chirality (physics) , acceptor , nanotechnology , combinatorial chemistry , computational chemistry , photochemistry , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , optoelectronics , chemistry , enantioselective synthesis , condensed matter physics , physics , nambu–jona lasinio model , catalysis , chiral symmetry breaking , quantum mechanics , quark
Solubilized fullerene derivatives have revolutionized the development of organic photovoltaic devices, but the isomeric complexity that arises from addition of the solubilizing group is often ignored. In article number 2004115, Matthew J. Fuchter and co‐workers separate 10 pairs of enantiomers from the 19 structural isomers of a common fullerene acceptor. They demonstrate the potential to discriminate circularly polarized light with a fast light‐response time and with a very high photocurrent dissymmetry factor, enabled by a chiral fullerene.