New indoline spiropyrans with highly stable merocyanine forms

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Photochromic properties of phenanthroline-annulated spirooxazine in the solid state

Photochromic transformations of phenanthroline-annulated spirooxazine were observed in polycrystalline powders and solid-phase films obtained from solutions by solvent evaporation. The spectral and kinetic properties of the solid-phase films were studied by stationary absorption spectroscopy and laser flash photolysis. The mechanism of photoinitiated reactions of solid-phase samples of phenanthroline-annulated spirooxazine includes mutual transformations of different transoid isomers of the merocyanine form.     

Photochromism of 6′-cyanosubstituted spirooxazines in frozen alcohol matrices

For three 6′-cyanosubstituted spironaphthooxazines, spectral characteristics of an open form and quantum yields of photoisomerization were determined both at room temperature and in frozen alcohol matrices. Spironaphthooxazines have demonstrated fairly high (0.01–0.02) quantum yields of open form appearance at 77 K. The observed peculiarities of the open form UV spectra were explained by the temperature dependence of the open form isomers distribution. Partial stabilization of the nonequilibrium isomers of an open form in the low-temperature matrices was revealed.     

Synthesis and photochromic properties of N 2-alkyl-5-furyl-4-thienylpyridazinones

New dihetarylethenes containing the six-membered bridging moiety, viz., N ²-alkyl-5-furyl-4-thienylpyridazinones, were synthesized. These compounds have photochromic properties in solution. The hindered rotation of the thiophene and furan rings around the single bonds that link these rings to the double bond of the pyridazinone moiety results in the formation of mixtures of chiral diastereomers in solution, the lifetimes of the diastereomers being no longer than 0.2 s. The photochromic rearrangement of pyridazinones is characterized by the highly efficient photocoloration and the photobleaching, which is an order of magnitude less efficient, in the absence of thermal relaxation processes.     

Photo- and thermochromic spiranes. 31.* Photochromic cationic spiropyrans with a pyridinium fragment in the aliphatic side chain*2

Syntheses are reported for cationic indoline spiropyrans with a quaternized pyridinium fragment in the aliphatic side chain, which display photochromic properties in solution. The major effect of introducing a quaternized pyridinium fragment into the benzopyran part of the spiropyran entails a significant decrease in the rate of thermal relaxation processes. ^*For Communication 30 see [1]. ^*2Dedicated to Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences B. A. Trofimov on his 70th jubilee. Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 10, pp. 1513-1522, October, 2008.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">N,N′</Emphasis>-Bis(9-anthrylmethyl)diamines as fluorescent chemosensors for transition metal cations

N,N′-Bis(9-anthryl)-substituted diamines, imidazolidines, and hexahydropyrimidines were synthesized, and their luminescence properties and complexing ability were studied. N,N′-Bis(9-anthrylmethyl)ethane-1,2-diamine and N,N′-bis(9-anthrylmethyl)butane-1,4-diamine were found to be effective and selective PET chemosensors for Zn²⁺ and H⁺, respectively. 2-[1,3-Bis(9-anthrylmethyl)hexahydropyrimidin-2-yl]-6-methoxyphenol can be used as fluorescent chemosensor for mercury(II) cations.     

Identification and extraction—spectrophotometric or extraction—fluorimetric determination of organic nitrogen-containing triiodides, new biologically active compounds

A method for the identification of organic triiodides is proposed, and rapid, highly sensitive procedures for the extraction-spectrophotometric and extraction-fluorometric determination of medicinal preparations as ion associates with hydroxyxanthene (Eosin) and triphenylmethane (Bromothymol Blue) dyes. The formation of 1 : 1 ion associates with an absorption maximum at 545 nm (430 nm for ion associates with Bromothymol Blue) and a fluorescence maximum at 560 nm was detected. The ion associates were extracted with chloroform from a water-ethanol solution at pH 6.86 and 9.18. The detection limits were c_min ≈ 4.3 × 10^-7 M for the extraction-spectrophotometric and c_min ≈ 8.6 sx 10^-8 M for the extraction-fluorimetric procedure; RSD ≤2%. The developed procedures can be used for controlling medicinal preparations and monitoring biological materials