biostudies-literatureBallerini LChina Scholarship CouncilMinistry of University and ResearchAgence Nationale de la RechercheNational Recovery and Resilience PlanPRIN2022 schemee10787https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12759247biostudies-literatureUnknown65(1)The development of efficient circularly polarized electrochemiluminescence (CP-ECL) probes is still at its infancy and examples are still very limited. Yet, their achievement would enable gathering a readout that carries privileged information on the probe's chiral environment by monitoring luminescence polarization bias with high signal-to-noise ratio. Notwithstanding, this is a highly challenging task and requires judicious chemical engineering of chiral ECL-active emitters. Herein, we aim at expanding the palette of CP-ECL luminophores by presenting a novel class of enantiopure heterobinuclear Ir(III)-Au(I) complexes, which are investigated thoroughly by means of chemical, structural, and (chiro-)optical techniques. The ground and excited state properties are also elucidated by using density functional theory (DFT) approaches including spin-orbital coupling (SOC) perturbation. The chiral-at-metal complexes display luminescence with a polarization bias of the emitted light that is function of the helical arrangement of the coordination sphere around the Ir(III) center. Overall, the photo- and electro-active complexes unraveled in this work combine unparallelly high photoluminescence quantum yield in the orange region, excellent circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) brightness up to 4.5 M^-1 cm^-1 with a notable ECL activity. Finally, these features provide emitters with CP-ECL efficiency that encompass remarkably by a factor 3.5 that of the well-known benchmark tris-(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II).Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)Bright Circularly Polarized Electrochemiluminescence from Heterobinuclear Ir<sup>III</sup>-Au<sup>I</sup> Enantiomers.PMC127592472022YYPTZSANR‐24‐CE29‐2108ANR‐21‐CE29‐0015ANR-24-CE29-2108ANR-21-CE29-0015Sojic NDi Bari LBallerini LLiu MCesar VBellemin-Laponnaz SZinna FMauro MArrico LGourlaouen CVoci SDaniel CPolo FBouffier LfalseBright Circularly Polarized Electrochemiluminescence from Heterobinuclear Ir<sup>III</sup>-Au<sup>I</sup> Enantiomers.The development of efficient circularly polarized electrochemiluminescence (CP-ECL) probes is still at its infancy and examples are still very limited. Yet, their achievement would enable gathering a readout that carries privileged information on the probe's chiral environment by monitoring luminescence polarization bias with high signal-to-noise ratio. Notwithstanding, this is a highly challenging task and requires judicious chemical engineering of chiral ECL-active emitters. Herein, we aim at expanding the palette of CP-ECL luminophores by presenting a novel class of enantiopure heterobinuclear Ir(III)-Au(I) complexes, which are investigated thoroughly by means of chemical, structural, and (chiro-)optical techniques. The ground and excited state properties are also elucidated by using density functional theory (DFT) approaches including spin-orbital coupling (SOC) perturbation. The chiral-at-metal complexes display luminescence with a polarization bias of the emitted light that is function of the helical arrangement of the coordination sphere around the Ir(III) center. Overall, the photo- and electro-active complexes unraveled in this work combine unparallelly high photoluminescence quantum yield in the orange region, excellent circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) brightness up to 4.5 M^-1 cm^-1 with a notable ECL activity. Finally, these features provide emitters with CP-ECL efficiency that encompass remarkably by a factor 3.5 that of the well-known benchmark tris-(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II).2026-01-01T00:00:00Z2026 Jan2026-06-06T09:27:12.928Z2026-05-28T03:11:55.748ZS-EPMC127592474123098910.1002/anie.202510787