O -fluoroazobenzenes as readily synthesized photoswitches offering nearly quantitative two-way isomerization with visible light

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 134, Issue 51, 2012, Pages 20597-20600

  Bléger, David ^a   Schwarz, Jutta ^a   Brouwer, Albert M ^b   Hecht, Stefan ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZOBENZENE DERIVATIVES; BLUE LIGHT; ELECTRONWITHDRAWING; ESTER GROUPS; FLUOROAZOBENZENES; FUNCTIONALIZED; LOWER ENERGIES; PHOTOSWITCHES; VISIBLE LIGHT;

FLUORINE; ISOMERIZATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); SCAFFOLDS; SEPARATION;

ISOMERS;

AZOBENZENE DERIVATIVE; FLUORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON DERIVATIVE;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ISOMER; ISOMERIZATION; LIGHT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SYNTHESIS; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871592349     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja310323y     Document Type: Article

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