Ortho-Fluoroazobenzenes: Visible Light Switches with Very Long-Lived Z Isomers

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 50, 2014, Pages 16492-16501

  Knie, Christopher ^a   Utecht, Manuel ^b   Zhao, Fangli ^a   Kulla, Hannes ^a   Kovalenko, Sergey ^a   Brouwer, Albert M ^c   Saalfrank, Peter ^b   Hecht, Stefan ^a   Bléger, David ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

azobenzenes; photochromism; photoswitches; substituent effects; visible light

Indexed keywords

AZOBENZENE; ISOMERIZATION; ISOMERS; PHOTOCHROMISM; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

EFFECT OF SUBSTITUTION; ELECTRON WITHDRAWING GROUP; ELECTRONWITHDRAWING; MOLECULAR PHOTOSWITCHES; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOSWITCHES; SUBSTITUENT EFFECT; VISIBLE LIGHT;

LIGHT;

EID: 84930642202     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201404649     Document Type: Article

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