Dithienylethene metallodendrimers with high photochromic efficiency

Autor: Qi-Feng Zhou, Xiaoxiao He, Cui-Hong Wang, Wei Wang, Xiping Luo, Jianhua Xu, Ying Zhang, Yu-Xuan Wang, Lin Xu, Jinquan Chen, Hongwei Tan
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Chinese Chemical Letters. 33:1613-1618
ISSN: 1001-8417
DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2021.09.048
Popis: It has been challenging to achieve multi-photochromic systems without affecting the individual photoswitching properties of the constituent units. Herein, we present the design and synthesis of a new family of platinum-acetylide dendrimers containing up to twenty-one photochromic dithienylethene (DTE) units that exhibit both high photochromic efficiency and individual switching properties. Upon irradiation with ultraviolet (UV) and visible (vis) light, the resultant metallodendrimers display high conversion yield and good fatigue resistance. More interestingly, cyclization-cycloreversion kinetics revealed that the photochromic property of each DTE unit in these metallodendrimers is unaffected by its neighbor and the full ring-closure of up to twenty-one DTE units in one single dendrimer has been achieved.
Databáze: OpenAIRE