title: Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Simple Organic Molecules.
abstract: This article aims to show the identity of "circularly polarized luminescent active simple organic molecules" as a new concept in organic chemistry due to the potential interest of these molecules, as availed by the exponentially growing number of research articles related to them. In particular, it describes and highlights the interest and difficulty in developing chiral simple (small and non-aggregated) organic molecules able to emit left- or right-circularly polarized light efficiently, the efforts realized up to now to reach this challenging objective, and the most significant milestones achieved to date. General guidelines for the preparation of these interesting molecules are also presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Organic Chemistry I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, Madrid 28040 (Spain).
authors.forename: Esther M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Carnerero
authors.affiliation: Department of Organic Chemistry I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, Madrid 28040 (Spain).
authors.forename: Antonia R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Agarrabeitia
authors.affiliation: Department of Organic Chemistry I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, Madrid 28040 (Spain).
authors.forename: Florencio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Moreno
authors.affiliation: Department of Organic Chemistry I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, Madrid 28040 (Spain).
authors.forename: Beatriz L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Maroto
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, San José State University, One Washinghton Square, San José, CA 95192-0101 (USA).
authors.forename: Gilles
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Muller
authors.affiliation: Department of Organic Chemistry I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, Madrid 28040 (Spain).
authors.forename: María J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Ortiz
authors.affiliation: Department of Organic Chemistry I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, Madrid 28040 (Spain). santmoya@ucm.es.
authors.forename: Santiago
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: de la Moya
mesh_terms: D002942:Circular Dichroism; D049449:Luminescence; D008163:Luminescent Measurements / Q000379:methods*; D055601:Organic Chemistry Phenomena
keywords: chirality; chromophores; circularly polarized luminescence; fluorescence; small organic molecules