Electrochemical and photochemical cyclization and cycloreversion of diarylethenes and diarylethene-capped sexithiophene wires

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1165-1178

  Staykov, Aleksandar ^a   Areephong, Jetsuda ^b   Browne, Wesley R ^b   Feringa, Ben L ^b   Yoshizawa, Kazunari ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

diarylethene capped sexithiophene wires; diarylethenes; electrochemical switching; frontier orbitals; photoswitching; TDDFT

Indexed keywords

DIARYLETHENES; ELECTROCHEMICAL SWITCHING; FRONTIER ORBITALS; PHOTOSWITCHING; SEXITHIOPHENES; TDDFT;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CYCLIZATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL OXIDATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EXCITED STATES; GROUND STATE; MONOLAYERS; NANOWIRES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SWITCHING; WIRE;

OLEFINS;

EID: 79951897490     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn102806z     Document Type: Article

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