Photochromic diarylethenes with a naphthalene moiety: synthesis, photochromism, and substitution effects
摘要:
Five unsymmetrical diarylethenes with a naphthalene moiety were synthesized, and the structures of four diarylethenes were determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The naphthalene was connected directly to the central perfluorocyclopentene ring as an aryl moiety and available to participate in photoisomerization reaction. Their properties, such as photochromism, thermal stability, fatigue resistance, and fluorescence, were investigated systematically. All five diarylethenes, which are thermally stable, exhibit favorable photochromism, and function as notable fluorescence switches in both solution and solid media. The electron-donating substituents effectively suppressed the cycloreversion quantum yield, whereas the electron-withdrawing substituents evidently enhanced the fluorescence quantum yield of diarylethenes with a naphthalene moiety. The results indicated that the naphthalene moiety and the substituent effects played an important role during the process of photoisomerization reaction for these diarylethene derivatives. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
The photochromism of unsymmetrical diarylethene isomers with an electron-withdrawing cyano substituent
摘要:
Three unsymmetrical isomeric diarylethenes bearing an electron-withdrawing cyano group were synthesized and their structures determined using single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Each of the compounds displayed excellent photochromism in solution, in PMMA film, as well as in the crystalline phase. The isomeric compounds also functioned as a fluorescence switch in PMMA films. The cyclization quantum yield and the absorption maxima of both the ring-opened and ring-closed isomers increased in the order: ortlio- < meta- < para-substitution of the cyano group. Compared with the unsubstituted parent compound, the cycloreversion quantum yield decreased whereas the molar absorption coefficient of the ring-opened and the ring-closed isomers increased significantly when the cyano group was attached at any of the three positions on the terminal benzene ring. Cyclic voltammetry studies indicated that the position of cyano substitution had a marked effect on the electrochemical behaviours of these isomeric diarylethenes. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
The effect of the cyano group position upon unsymmetrical isomeric diarylethenes bearing a pyrrole unit
作者:Gang Liu、Shouzhi Pu、Xiaomei Wang、Weijun Liu、Congbin Fan
DOI:10.1016/j.dyepig.2010.12.007
日期:2011.8
Four photochromic diarylethenes bearing a pyrrole moiety were synthesized, and the structures of two of the new isomeric compounds were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Each of the diarylethene derivatives exhibited good photochromism both in solution and in poly(methyl methacrylate) films, which their photoconversion ratios from open-ring to closed-ring isomers were larger
The photochromism of unsymmetrical diarylethene isomers with an electron-withdrawing cyano substituent
作者:Shouzhi Pu、Weijun Liu、Gang Liu
DOI:10.1016/j.dyepig.2010.01.015
日期:2010.9
Three unsymmetrical isomeric diarylethenes bearing an electron-withdrawing cyano group were synthesized and their structures determined using single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Each of the compounds displayed excellent photochromism in solution, in PMMA film, as well as in the crystalline phase. The isomeric compounds also functioned as a fluorescence switch in PMMA films. The cyclization quantum yield and the absorption maxima of both the ring-opened and ring-closed isomers increased in the order: ortlio- < meta- < para-substitution of the cyano group. Compared with the unsubstituted parent compound, the cycloreversion quantum yield decreased whereas the molar absorption coefficient of the ring-opened and the ring-closed isomers increased significantly when the cyano group was attached at any of the three positions on the terminal benzene ring. Cyclic voltammetry studies indicated that the position of cyano substitution had a marked effect on the electrochemical behaviours of these isomeric diarylethenes. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Photochromic diarylethenes with a naphthalene moiety: synthesis, photochromism, and substitution effects
作者:Renjie Wang、Shouzhi Pu、Gang Liu、Bing Chen
DOI:10.1016/j.tet.2013.04.080
日期:2013.7
Five unsymmetrical diarylethenes with a naphthalene moiety were synthesized, and the structures of four diarylethenes were determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The naphthalene was connected directly to the central perfluorocyclopentene ring as an aryl moiety and available to participate in photoisomerization reaction. Their properties, such as photochromism, thermal stability, fatigue resistance, and fluorescence, were investigated systematically. All five diarylethenes, which are thermally stable, exhibit favorable photochromism, and function as notable fluorescence switches in both solution and solid media. The electron-donating substituents effectively suppressed the cycloreversion quantum yield, whereas the electron-withdrawing substituents evidently enhanced the fluorescence quantum yield of diarylethenes with a naphthalene moiety. The results indicated that the naphthalene moiety and the substituent effects played an important role during the process of photoisomerization reaction for these diarylethene derivatives. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.