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Photosalient Effect of a Diarylethene with a Perfluorocyclohexene Ring
Author(s) -
Hatano Eri,
Morimoto Masakazu,
Hyodo Kengo,
Yasuda Nobuhiro,
Yokojima Satoshi,
Nakamura Shinichiro,
Uchida Kingo
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201603020
Subject(s) - diarylethene , photochromism , ring (chemistry) , conformational isomerism , derivative (finance) , irradiation , photochemistry , materials science , crystallography , chemistry , molecule , physics , organic chemistry , nuclear physics , financial economics , economics
Crystals of a diarylethene with a perfluorocyclohexene ring exhibit a remarkable photosalient effect upon UV light irradiation that is attributed to the structural changes that occur when going from open‐ to closed‐ring isomers in the crystalline state, together with the existence of two conformers with different photoconversions compared with those of a perfluorocyclopentene derivative. Our current results give a design principle for molecular structures so as to achieve the photosalient effect for photochromic crystals.