Structural Origin of Enhanced Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Hybrid Manganese Bromides

Abstract

Chiral hybrid metal halides with a high dissymmetry factor (g_lum ) and a superior photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) are promising candidates for circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) light sources. Here, we report eight new chiral hybrid manganese halides, crystallizing in the non-centrosymmetric space group P2₁ 2₁ 2₁ and showing intense CPL emissions. Oppositely-signed circular dichroism (CD) and CPL signals are detected according to the R- and S-configurations of the chiral alkanolammonium cations. Time-resolved PL spectra show long averaged decay lifetimes up to 1 ms for (R-3-quinuclidinol)MnBr₃ (R-1). The g_lum of polycrystalline samples for coordinated structures (23×10^-3 ) is more than doubled compared with the non-coordinated ones (8.5×10^-3 ), due to the structural variations. R-1 exhibit both a high g_lum and a high PLQY (50.2 %). The effective chirality transfer mechanism through coordination bonds, with strongly emissive Mn^II centers, enables a new class of high-performance CPL materials.