An asymmetrical photochromic diarylethene 1-(2cyano-1,5-dimethyl-4-pyrryl)-2-{(2-methyl-4hydroxymethylphe -nyl)-3-thienyl}perfluorocyclopentene (1o) was synthesized and its photochromic properties as well as reaction kinetics were investigated in detail. Upon irradiation with 297 nm UV light, diarylethene 1o exhibited photochromism in solution. Moreover, 1o also exhibited obviously fluorescence...

Photochromic materials are attractive and promising for applications in many fields. One subject in this area is to prepare and study the photochromism in composite or hybrid materials based on transition-metal oxides or polyoxometalates. Their properties not depend only on the chemical nature of each component, but also on the interface and synergy between them. Since the charge transfer plays...

The synthesis of a perfluorocyclopentene based diarylethene bearing two terpyridine units is reported. Furthermore studies of the free ligand's photochromism and investigations regarding the influence of various transition metal ions on the photochromic reaction are presented. The photochromism of the central diarylethene unit is strongly dependent on the transition metal present, vice versa th...

Reported herein is a new class of pure polycyclic hydrocarbon molecules, designed through a novel aggregation-induced emission (AIE) strategy, with unexpected photochromic properties. The restriction of intramolecular motion was found as a comprehensive mechanism for the AIE effect. The photochromism mechanism study revealed that the photocyclization reaction of cis-stilbene, the molecular conf...

A novel photochromic diarylethene bearing a pyrimidine moiety, 1-(2,4-dimethoxyl-5-pyrimidinyl)-2-[2methyl-5-(3-methyl)-3-thienyl]perfluorocyclopentene has been synthesized. Its properties, including photochromic and fluorescent behaviors, have been investigated. The compound exhibited remarkable photochromism, changing from colorless to red after irradiation with UV light in solution. The cycl...

Photochromic polymeric films were prepared by doping photochromic dye spironaphthooxazine into polymer resin gels such as polyurethane, vinyl copolymer, and copolymer of vinyl and nitorocellulose at different concentrations. All of the composite films show normal photochromism. The kinetics of the photochromism/decoloration in the films were quantified by fitting biexponential equations to thei...

We report the synthesis of a water-compatible bis-glycosyl diarylethene using click chemistry that undergoes photochromism and functions as a molecular logic gate.

Photochromism is a change of colour induced by irradiation with light, while thermochromism is a change of colour due to a change of temperature. Both photochromism and thermochromism have been observed in inorganic and organic compounds, however thermochromism is much less common in biological systems. One mechanism by which molecular photochromism can occur is a photo-induced isomerization to...

The methods of absorption electronic and NMR spectroscopy were used to study the processes complexation during interaction molecules unsubstituted indoline spiropyran with aluminum salts. mechanism formation structure complexes two types has been established. Negative photochromism complex merocyanine form ions was found. stability metal action various agents investigated. Keywords: photochromi...