Using photoresponsive end-closing and end-opening reactions for the synthesis and disassembly of [2]rotaxanes: Implications for dynamic covalent chemistry

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2374-2379

  Tokunaga, Yuji ^a   Akasaka, Koichiro ^a   Hashimoto, Nobuharu ^a   Yamanaka, Shou ^a   Hisada, Kenji ^a   Shimomura, Youji ^a   Kakuchi, Suzuka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVALENT CHEMISTRIES; DIALKYLAMMONIUM; DYNAMIC COVALENT CHEMISTRIES; ELEVATED TEMPERATURES; GOOD YIELDS; GUIDED SELF ASSEMBLIES; OPENING PROCESS; OPENING REACTIONS; PHOTORESPONSIVE; POLAR SOLVENTS; ROOM TEMPERATURES; ROTAXANES; TWO COMPONENTS; UV IRRADIATIONS;

CROWN ETHERS; ETHERS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN BONDS; SALTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ISOMERIZATION;

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; CROWN ETHER DERIVATIVE; METHYL GROUP; ROTAXANE; SOLVENT; STILBENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; DISSOCIATION; ISOMER; ISOMERIZATION; QUANTUM YIELD; RING CLOSING METATHESIS; RING OPENING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

HYDROGEN BONDING; ISOMERISM; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY PROCESSES; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; ROTAXANES; SOLVENTS; STILBENES;

EID: 64149127018     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo8025143     Document Type: Article

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