Three kinds of chiral cyclic compounds and their mirror‐image isomers are described. The cover was created by using a “kaleidoscope” motif to project the three pairs of enantiomers in the central hexagon. The kaleidoscope is an optical device invented in the 19th century as a result of experiments on polarized light; the word “kaleidoscope”, derived from the Greek kalos “beautiful”, was used to represent the beautiful and circularly polarized luminescent (CPL) molecules. More information can be found in the Research Article by M. Hasegawa, Y. Mazaki, and co‐workers (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202202218).
This cover represents the three kinds of chiral cyclic compounds and their mirror-image isomers described in the paper. The cover was created by using a "kaleidoscope" motif to project the three pairs of enantiomers in the central hexagon. The kaleidoscope (from the Greek kalos "beautiful"), an optical device invented in the 19th century as a result of experiments on polarized light, was used to represent the aesthetically pleasing and circularly polarized luminescent (CPL) molecules. Note that spiral arrows released from the S isomers correspond to right-handed CPL, whereas those from the R isomers correspond to left-handed CPL.
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