Efficient synthesis and properties of isomeric photochromic diarylethenes having a pyrrole unit

Two new isomeric photochromic diarylethenes with a pyrrole unit have been developed. Their properties, including photochromic behavior, crystal structures, and fluorescent properties, have been investigated. The two isomeric compounds show distinctly different photochromism, both in solution and in the single-crystalline phase: one turns red upon photocyclization whereas the other turns blue, which may be attributed to the different substituent effects.     

Photochromism of bis(2-alkyl-1-benzofuran-3-yl)perfluorocyclopentene derivatives

[reaction: see text] Photochromic diarylethene derivatives having benzofuran heteroaryl groups, bis(2-methyl-1-benzofuran-3-yl)perfluorocyclopentene and bis(2-butyl-1-benzofuran-3-yl)perfluorocyclopentene, were synthesized, and their photochromic performance was examined in hexane solution as well as in the single-crystalline phase. The compounds exhibited photochromic reactivity even in the single-crystalline phase.     

2-芳氧基-1,8-邻苯二甲酰基萘的合成及光致变色性

合成了3种2-芳氧基-1,8-邻苯二甲酰基萘类光致变色化合物,通过核磁共振谱、红外光谱、质谱和元素分析确定了结构.对产物进行了荧光光谱测定,3种光致变色化合物的荧光强度和Stoke位移都较大.用紫外-可见分光光度计对其在丙酮溶液中的光致变色行为进行了测定,3种光致变色化合物在300-600 nm范围内都具有一定的光致变色性能和较大的吸光系数.     

苯氧基萘并萘醌衍生物的合成与光致变色性能研究

设计合成了16个新的具有不同迁移基团、不同取代基及双苯氧基萘的苯氧基并萘醌化合物; 通过红外光谱、核磁共振、质谱等方法对其结构进行了表征; 利用紫外-可见光谱研究化合物的光致变色性, 结果表明, 化合物的结构影响其变色性能, 当迁移基团为芳香基时, 其变色性较好; 主链醌环上有取代基时, 化合物成色体最大吸收波长红移; 双苯氧基萘并萘醌化合物较相应的单化合物有较大的摩尔吸光系数; 随着苯基上取代基增大, 其成色速率常数变小.     

Synthesis, crystal structure and optoelectronic properties of a new unsymmetrical photochromic diarylethene

A new unsymmetrical photochromic diarylethene, 1-(2-methyl-5-phenyl-3-thienyl)-2-[2-methyl-5-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl)-3-thienyl]perfluorocyclopentene (1a), was synthesized and its structure was determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Its optical and electrochemical properties, including photochromic reactivity both in solution and in the solid state (PMMA film and the single-crystalline phase), fluorescence and electrochemical properties were investigated in detail. The compound showed excellent photochromism even in the single-crystalline phase by photo-irradiation. In acetonitrile, the open-ring isomer of diarylethene 1 exhibited relatively strong fluorescence at 470nm when excited at 300nm, and its emission intensity decreased along with the photochromism upon irradiation with 313nm light. Its closed-ring isomer showed almost no fluorescence. The electrochemical properties of diarylethene were investigated by performing cyclic voltammetry experiment and its HOMO and LUMO energy level were calculated.     

Structure and solid-state photochromic properties of two new compounds with pyrazolone-ring

Two new organic photochromic compounds based on pyrazolone were synthesized and further characterized by elemental analysis, MS, IR spectra, and ¹H NMR spectra. The photochromic properties and photochemical kinetics of them have been studied by UV absorption spectra under irradiation of 365 nm light. The photochromism of pyrazolone derivatives in the solid state has been so far explained only in terms of the light-induced change of absorption and their crystal structures, which is caused by the shift of the tautomeric equilibrium between the enol and keto forms. In this work, their IR spectra have been measured before and after irradiation. Based on the IR spectra and crystal structure analysis, a reasonable mechanism was proposed, the photochromic phenomenon may be due to the photoisomerization from enol-form to keto-form through proton transfer.     

Syntheses, luminescence switching, and electrochemical studies of photochromic dithienyl-1,10-phenanthroline zinc(II) bis(thiolate) complexes

A series of zinc(II) diimine bis(thiolate) complexes with photochromic diarylethene-containing phenanthroline ligands was synthesized, and their photophysical and photochromic properties were studied. The X-ray crystal structures of two of these complexes have been characterized. All complexes exhibit strong 3LLCT phosphorescence at 510-620 nm in the solid state at 77 and 298 K and in EtOH-MeOH glass at 77 K. Detailed studies revealed that the absorption, emission, and electrochemical properties of the complexes could be readily switched via the photochromic ring-closing and ring-opening reactions.     

Substituent Effects on the Photochromic Properties of Benzothiophene‐Based Derivatives

Five diarylethene photochromic derivatives, the structures of which incorporate a central benzothiophene unit, a left‐hand thiazole group, and a right‐hand benzothiophene group, have been prepared. The compound with a thiazole unit with no substituent on the reaction‐center carbon atom reveals an unprecedented transformation upon light irradiation. When the 4‐position of thiazole is protected by a methyl group, the compounds show high photosensitivity and photochromic properties. In this case, light irradiation affords new compounds with [5]helicene structures featuring the highest redshifted absorption maxima reported to date.     

Diastereoselective cyclization in chiral diarylethene crystals: polymorphism and selectivity

[structure: see text] An optically active photochromic diarylethene, (S)-1-(2-methyl-5-phenyl-3-thienyl)-2-[2-methyl-5-(4-(3-methyl-1-penten-1-yl)phenyl)-3-thienyl]perfluorocyclopentene ((S)-1a), was synthesized. (S)-1a formed two crystalline phases, alpha- and beta-phases. The diarylethene underwent a photochromic reaction in solution and even in the single-crystalline phase. In solution, no diastereoselection was observed. On the other hand, in the beta-crystalline phase, only one diastereomer (S,R,R)-1b was produced. No such diastereoselection was observed in the alpha-crystalline phase.     

THE PHOTOCHROMISM OF THE DEHYDRODIANTHRONES. PARISER-PARR-POPLE CALCULATIONS

Abstract— The spectral features and related parameters of the ground state structure of 1,3,6',8'-tetramethyldehydrodianthrone (TMD) which, according to the theoretical approach used in this paper, is identical with dehydrodianthrone, have been calculated with the aid of the Pariser-Pam-Pople semiempirical SCF LCAO MO method with CI. The calculated singlet-singlet absorption spectra and triplet-triplet absorption spectra are in very good agreement with previous experimental findings. The object of the present paper, however, is to theoretically establish the nature of the green photochromic species of TMD. Calculations have been made for several plausible structures for this species which have been proposed earlier. The results suggest that the valence-isomeric form V is the most probable structure of the green photochromic form of the dehydrodianthrone and its derivatives.     

Plasmonic enhancement of gold nanoparticles on photocycloreversion reaction of diarylethene derivatives depending on particle size, distance from the particle surface, and irradiation wavelength

We newly synthesized various sized gold nanoparticles covered with photochromic polymers consisting of diarylethenes with various structures to investigate an effect of the gold nanoparticles on the photocycloreversion reaction of the diarylethene chromophores upon irradiation with visible light. The gold nanoparticles covered with the photochromic polymers exhibited reversible changes in localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) absorption along with the photochromic reaction depending on the diameter of the particle, the distance between the gold surface and the chromophore, and the structure of the diarylethene chromophore. The rate of the photocycloreversion reaction of the chromophores around the particle was enhanced by the gold nanoparticles and the degree of the enhancement was affected by the diameter of the particle and the distance from the gold surface, while a structural difference in the diarylethene chromophore had no effect on the degree of the enhancement. The larger enhancement of the photocycloreversion reaction was observed by irradiation at longer wavelength side than visible light corresponding to the LSPR frequency.     

偶氮聚电解质在水性介质中的聚集行为和光响应性研究

研究了一种侧链型偶氮聚电解质(PPAPE)在水溶液和水/四氢呋喃混合溶液中的缔合及聚集行为.利用紫外光谱检测了缔合体的形成过程.通过测定不同浓度下溶液的表面张力确定PPAPE在水溶液中的临界聚集浓度,并利用透射电镜对PPAPE聚集体直接进行观察.研究表明,PPAPE的疏水性偶氮生色团在适当的条件下会发生缔合,并进一步聚集成具有纳米尺寸的微球.伴随缔合体的形成,PPAPE的紫外最大吸收峰位置明显蓝移,而且这种缔合行为使PPAPE的光色效应明显减弱.尽管溶液pH值对PPAPE的光色效应也有明显的影响,但作用机理有本质的区别.     

Spectroscopic studies of the photochromism of N-salicylideneaniline mixed crystals and glasses

The reaction mechanism of the photochromism of N-salicylideneaniline (SA) in crystalline and glass matrices has been investigated at low temperatures. The structures of the initial E and final QC states as well as those of the intermediates QA and QB have been analyzed by optical absorption and emission spectroscopy. The potential barriers involved in the photochromic activity have been deduced from the temperature-dependent kinetics of the absorption spectra. An energy-level scheme of the forward and back reactions is presented.     

六芳基二咪唑类化合物的合成及光致变色性能

六芳基咪唑;六芳基二咪唑类化合物的合成及光致变色性能     

New thermally stable photochromic di(het)arylethenes of the cyclopentenone series

Oxidation of 2,3-diarylcyclopent-2-en-1-ones with m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid gave new thermally stable sulfone derivatives of photochromic diarylethenes. The spectral properties of the compounds obtained (the wavelengths of the maxima of the absorption bands of their initial and cyclic forms, the quantum yields of photocyclization and photobleaching reactions) as well as their thermal stability and fatigue resistance were examined. The relationship between the structures of the synthesized compounds and their photochromic properties was determined. The energy differences between the ground-state molecules of the starting and photoinduced isomers of 2,3-diarylcyclopent-2-en-1-ones were calculated by the DFT/B3LYP1 method with the 6-31G(d) basis set. The calculated energy differences can be used to predict and explain such spectral characteristics of photochromic diarylethenes as the thermal stability of photoinduced isomers and the quantum yields of cycloreversion reactions.     

1,3,4-噁二唑键联二芳基乙烯化合物的合成及性质

将1,3,4-噁二唑基团引入二芳基乙烯分子中, 合成了2种新的二芳基乙烯类光致变色化合物1-氰基-2-(2H-5-苯基-1,3,4-噁二唑)-1,2-二(2,4,5-三甲基-3-噻吩)乙烯(3)和1,4-二{[1-氰基-2-(2H-5-苯基-1,3,4-噁二唑)-1,2-二(2,4,5-三甲基-3-噻吩)乙烯]-1,3,4-噁二唑}苯(4). 通过IR, NMR, MS和元素分析对化合物进行了结构表征, 并研究了其UV-Vis吸收、荧光发射、动力学特性和抗疲劳性质. 实验结果表明, 化合物[STHZ]3[STBZ]和[STHZ]4[STBZ]具有良好的光致变色性质, 光致变色闭环反应为零级反应, 开环反应为一级反应.     

Synthesis and exploring the excited-state PES of photochromic hydrogen bond-assembled [2]rotaxane based on 1,3-Diazabicyclo-[3.1.0]hex-3-enes

Here, the synthesis of photochromic hydrogen bond-assembled [2]rotaxanes using bis-fumarate as a thread for the first time is reported. In fact, photochromic 1,3-diazabicyclo[3.1.0]hex-3-ene moieties were used as stoppers and two-atom spacers managed good binding sites for the tetralactam macrocycles in clipping reactions. Moreover, the yields of photochromic [2]rotaxanes highly depended on the NO₂ substituent stoppers. While the thread with a para –NO₂ substituent as stopper units was shown to be an excellent template for the synthesis of photochromic [2]rotaxanes. The structures of the [2]rotaxanes are established clearly in solution by chemical shifts of the ¹H ¹³C NMR signals and UV–Vis spectra. A pronounced bathochromic shift was occurred in the excitation wavelength of photochoromic [2]rotaxanes compared with the absorption band of photochromic threads. Therefore, these organizations can be applied in light-driven molecular switches and motors. The reversible transformation of trans and cis geometric photoisomers under UV radiation was identified. In other efforts, the possibility of the process of trans to cis interconversion of the fumarate linker under UV irradiation has been examined computationally and it has appeared that it may cause the transverse of the bis-fumarate linker inside the tetralactam macrocycle to some extent.

     

Synthesis and characterization of nonsymmetric cyclopentene-based dithienylethenes

Nonsymmetric cyclopentene-based dithienylethenes, containing both thienyl and benzothienyl units, have been synthesized for the first time, employing intramolecular McMurry reaction as a key transformation to target compounds 10 and 16. Photochromic properties of these compounds were examined in toluene and acetonitrile solutions, PMMA layers, solid films, and crystal phase. To explain an unprecedented single-crystalline photochromism phenomena of 10, X-ray crystallographic analysis was performed, revealing a significant influence of strong S···S interatomic interactions on the intramolecular distance between two photochemical reaction centers in the molecule. Compound 16 could be further synthetically modified in a step-by-step manner, thus serving as potential key intermediate to various complex bifunctional photochromic molecules.     

Synthesis and Properties of Photochromic Diarylethenes Bearing Thiazole Moiety

Four new diarylethene derivatives based on thiophene or thiazole moieties were designed and synthesized, and the structures of compounds 4a and 5a were determined by single‐X‐ray diffraction analysis. All of these compounds showed reversible photochromic reactions and notable fluorescence photo‐switches in solution. Furthermore, diarylethenes 4a and 5a also showed good photochromism in single crystal phase. The electron‐donating and electron‐withdrawing substituents play the same role in the photochromic process: red‐shifted absorption and fluorescence ( 1a and 2a compared with 3a ). The fluorescent modulation efficiencies of asymmetrical diarylethenes 4 and 5 were significantly enhanced compared with the similar dithienylethenes, and the fatigue resistance of 5 was much better than 4 , which showed that the diarylethene bearing electron‐withdrawing group could improve its fatigue resistance.     

Untersuchung reversibler Photoprozesse durch Blitzlichtphotolyse IV. Triplettzustände des 1, 3, 6′, 8′- tetramethyl-dehydrodianthrons

By means of the flash photolysis technique, transient absorption spectra attributed to tetramethyl-dehydrodianthrone (TMD) in both the photochromic and triplet states have been investigated in polymethylmethacrylate matrices and in the solvent triacetin. In polymethylmethacrylate matrices and in rigid glasses of triacetin the triplet state of TMD is heavily populated. Triplet-triplet absorption and phosphorescence measurements show that below 180°K the triplet decay follows first order kinetics with the decay constant k=11,3 ± 0,1 s^?1. In incompletely solidified triacetin glass it is possible to monitor the transient absorption of the photochromic and the triplet state simultaneously. It is shown that the photochromic state ¹A₁* is not generated via the triplet state. Therefore the authors suggest a kinetic scheme characterised by a direct singlet state - photochromic state transition.