In situ Observation of Molecular Swapping in a Crystal by X-ray Analysis

Autor: Kawano, Masaki, Sano, Tomokatsu, Abe, Jiro, Ohashi, Yuji
Zdroj: Chemistry Letters; December 2000, Vol. 29 Issue: 12 p1372-1373, 2p
Abstrakt: X-ray diffraction analysis elucidated that a pair of hexaarylbiimidazoles was transformed to a complex composed of two lophyl radicals and a piezodimer on irradiation at low temperatures. The piezodimer, the existence of which has been assumed spectroscopically as an unstable isomer, was produced via molecular swapping of two photo-induced lophyl radicals with drastic conformational change. The black crystal reverted to the original structure on warming to 25 °C.
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