1 Supporting Information Copper(II) Catalyzed Synthesis of Novel Helical Luminescent Benzo[4,5]imidazo[1,2-a][1,10]phenanthrolines via an Intramolecular C−H Amination Reaction Ramon Borges da Silva, a Rodolfo Inêz Teixeira, a James L. Wardell, b,c Solange M. S. V. Wardell, d and Simon J. Garden a * a Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Centro Tecnológica, Bloco A, Cidade Universitária, Ilha do Fundão, 21949-909 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. b Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos – Farmanguinhos, Fiocruz. R. Sizenando Nabuco, 100, Manguinhos, 21041-250, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. c Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, Scotland d CHEMSOL, 1 Harcourt Road, Aberdeen AB15 5NY, Scotland. *E-mail: garden@iq.ufrj.br; Tel: +55-21-3938-7135 Contents Pages 1 H, 13 C spectra of compounds 3 2 - 21 1 H, 13 C spectra of compound 5 22 1 H, 13 C spectra of compounds 6 23 - 34 HRMS of compounds 3, 5 and 6 35 - 50 2D NMR of compound 3a and of compound 6a 51 - 53 Theoretical calculations of 6a and 6aTS 55 - 56 Absorption, emission and excitation spectra of 6a in different solvents. 56 - 58 Crystallography Experimental and details 59 - 66 Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2016