Fig. 1: Synthetic strategy for axially chiral carbazoles.

A Atropisomerism of N-aryl carbazoles and its applications. B Conventional steric biasing does not confer long-range stereochemical relay. C Huang, Wong & Yeung’s work on organocatalytic desymmetrization to 1-bromo N-aryl carbazoles. D This work: Catalytic remote desymmetrization offers modular access to carbazole atropisomers for chiroptical functions. Ar aryl, Bu butyl, CD circular dichroism, CPA chiral phosphoric acid, CPL circularly polarized luminescence, CT charge transfer, TADF thermally activated delayed fluorescence.