Synthesis and photophysical properties of photochromic phenyl-substituted polyphenylenes with main-chain azobenzene fragments

New photochromic phenyl-substituted polyphenylenes containing azobenzene fragments in the backbone have been synthesized by the interaction of diacetylenes with bis(cyclopentadienones) via the Diels-Alder reaction. The polymers thus prepared exhibit the photochromic behavior and combine solubility in common organic solvents with high viscosity and thermal characteristics.     

A Spectral Study of the Complexation between the Hybrid Spiropyran Molecules and Metal Ions

Russian Journal of General Chemistry - The absorption and fluorescent, as well as photochromic properties exhibited by hybrid spiropyran during formation of complexes between its molecules with...     

Sуnthesis and Study of the Properties of New Hybrid Photochromic Chromenes with Reversible Modulation of Fluorescence

Russian Journal of General Chemistry - The reaction between phenalenon derivatives containing hydroxy group in peri-position to carbonyl and propynol was studied. A new hybrid compound was...     

Spectral and Kinetic Studies of Photochromic Systems Based on Graphene and Graphene Oxide Nanostructures

Optics and Spectroscopy - A comparative spectral and kinetic study of the reactions of thiol-substituted molecules of diarylethene and spirooxazine with graphene nanoparticles and graphene oxide...     

Synthesis and spectral kinetic study of photoinduced processes of photochromic nitro-substituted indoline and benzothienopyrroline spiropyrans in solutions

Nitro-substituted benzothienopyrroline spiropyrans containing substituents in the ben-zothienopyrroline moiety were synthesized. The comparative spectral kinetic study of the pho-tochromic transformations of these compounds and their indoline analogs in solvents of various polarity was carried out. On the basis of the results obtained and literature data, the photoin-duced aggregation of molecules of the merocyanine form in weakly polar solvents was suggested.     

Photochromism of indoline spiropyrans of the coumarin series in polymeric matrices

The photochromic properties and aggregation processes of merocyanine forms of indoline spiropyrans of the coumarin series in the block and film poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) were studied and compared by spectral and kinetic methods. Photochromism of the synthesized compounds depends on their structure. The efficient formation of J-aggregates was observed for indoline spiropyrans of the coumarin series based on 8-formyl-7-hydroxy-4-methylcoumarin and 3-formyl-4-hydroxycoumarin. Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 870–875, May, 2007.     

Photochromic properties of indoline spiropyrans of the coumarin series

The photochromic properties and aggregation processes of merocyanine forms of indoline spiropyrans of the coumarin series in solutions were studied by spectral and kinetic methods. Photochromism of the compounds synthesized depends on their structure. The efficient formation of J-aggregates was found for indoline spiropyrans 1a,b under UV irradiation and merocyanines 3a,b, which is indicated by the appearance of absorption and fluorescence bands in the visible spectral region and the resonance character of fluorescence. Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 10, pp. 2350–2356, October, 2005.     

Transformations of S-substituted 5,7-dimethyl-4а,5а-diphenyl-3-thioxoperhydroimidazo[4,5-e]-1,2,4-triazin-2-ones under treatment of 1,2-benzoquinones and photochemical properties of reaction products

For the first time 5,7-di-tert-butyl-1,3-dimethyl-3a,9a-diphenyl-3,3a-dihydro-1H-benzo[5,6][1,4]dioxino[2,3-d]imidazol-2(9aH)-one 13 and complex 9 of 4,6-di-tert-butyl-3-nitrobenzene-1,2-diol with 1,3-dimethyl-4,5-diphenyl-1H-imidazol-2(3H)-one 10a were prepared by the reactions of 3-alkylthio-5,7-dimethyl-4a,7a-diphenyl-4a,5,7,7a-tetrahydro-1H-imidazo[4,5-e]-1,2,4-triazin-6(4H)-ones with 3,5-di-tert-butyl-1,2-benzoquinone 1 and 4,6-di-tert-butyl-3-nitro-1,2-benzoquinone 2, respectively. Photochemical transformations of compounds 9 and 10a as well as products of its photooxygenation involving singlet oxygen under UV irradiation: urea 16, isomeric 1,3-dimethyl-4,5-diphenylimidazolidin-2-ones 17 and 17′, and compound 18 were studied by the spectral-kinetic method. Data on the absorption and fluorescence properties of synthesized compounds and their photoproducts were obtained.     

Photochromic properties of modified nanodiamonds

A functionalization of the surface of detonation nanodiamonds by photochromic spirocompounds from the classes of spiropyrans and spirooxazines has been carried out for the first time. A comparative study of the interaction of nanodiamonds with positive and negative potential is performed by the spectral–kinetic method, which shows the possibility of surface modification by only functionalized molecules of spirocompounds with the formation of surface proton complexes. This is confirmed by the hypsochromic shift of the absorption bands of the photoinduced merocyanine forms of adsorbed molecules of spirocompounds and by the decrease of the speed of their dark relaxation to the initial state in the presence of nanodiamonds with a negative potential.     

Spectral Study of the Effect of Water on the Complex Formation of Photochromic Spiropyrans with Metal Ions in Acetonitrile

Russian Journal of General Chemistry - A comparative spectral study of the complex formation of molecules of nitro-substituted indoline spiropyrans with metal ions in acetonitrile and...