A Fast Photochromic Molecule That Colors Only under UV Light
摘要:
We demonstrate that photochromism based on light-driven reversible bond cleavage can enable rapid coloration upon UV light irradiation and successive fast thermal bleaching within tens of milliseconds at room temperature. We have succeeded in developing a bisimidazole derivative with a paracyclophane moiety, pseudogem-bisDP1[2.2]PC, that changes from colorless to blue when irradiated with UV light. The incident light homolytically cleaves the C-N bond that links the two imidazole rings, generating a pair of imidazotyl radicals. A paracyclophane moiety connects the two radicals, thereby preventing them from diffusing away from one another, and the radicals quickly bind with each other to flip back to the original bisimidazole. Photochromic materials showing such intense photocoloration and fast thermal bleaching performance could be promising materials for possible fast light modulator applications.
A Fast Photochromic Molecule That Colors Only under UV Light
作者:Yuta Kishimoto、Jiro Abe
DOI:10.1021/ja810032t
日期:2009.4.1
We demonstrate that photochromism based on light-driven reversible bond cleavage can enable rapid coloration upon UV light irradiation and successive fast thermal bleaching within tens of milliseconds at room temperature. We have succeeded in developing a bisimidazole derivative with a paracyclophane moiety, pseudogem-bisDP1[2.2]PC, that changes from colorless to blue when irradiated with UV light. The incident light homolytically cleaves the C-N bond that links the two imidazole rings, generating a pair of imidazotyl radicals. A paracyclophane moiety connects the two radicals, thereby preventing them from diffusing away from one another, and the radicals quickly bind with each other to flip back to the original bisimidazole. Photochromic materials showing such intense photocoloration and fast thermal bleaching performance could be promising materials for possible fast light modulator applications.
Unusual Negative Photochromism via a Short-Lived Imidazolyl Radical of 1,1′-Binaphthyl-Bridged Imidazole Dimer
the photodecoloration reaction proceeds via a short-lived radical with a half-life of 9.4 μs in benzene at room temperature. Both the colored and colorless species show the photoinduced homolytic bond cleavage reaction of the C-N bond between the nitrogen atom of the imidazole ring and the carbon atom of the 1-position of the 1,1'-binaphthyl moiety and that of the C-C bond between each of the carbon