Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 18(51), p. 3754-3757
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc00453e
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The incorporation of a rhenium atom within an extended helical π-conjugated bi-pyridine system impacts the chiroptical and photophysical properties of the resulting neutral or cationic complexes, leading to the first examples of rhenium-based phosphors that exhibit circularly polarized luminescence.