Recently, the innovation team of crystalline molecular functional materials led by Prof. Zang Shuangquan of the School of Chemistry of ZZU has made positive progress in the research of luminous chiral monetary metal clusters. The research results, entitled “Photo-responsive propeller-like chiral AIE Cu （I） clusters”, were published in the top chemical journal German Applied Chemistry. （Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. ；IF ＝ 12.257）
The first author is Kong Yujin, a doctoral student, and the correspondent authors are Prof. Zang Shuangquan and associate Prof. Li Kai. Because of its good luminescent properties and various stimulus response properties, the money metal clusters with aggregation induced luminescence （AIE） have a wide application prospect in signal sensing, biological imaging and other fields. In this work, a pair of chiral AIE copper clusters were obtained by the combination of chiral ligand （R / s） - 2,2’ - di （di-p-toluenyphosphine） - 1,1’ - binaphthyl and univalent copper, which showed unique light response and circularly polarized luminescent properties and was successfully applied to photodynamic therapy. This research is supported by the National Outstanding Youth Foundation Project, the National Natural Science Foundation Project, the Henan Education Department Innovation Team Project, the Henan Science and Technology Innovation Talent Project and the Special Fund of ZZU. It is also another new breakthrough made by the team in related research work in recent years.