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Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Oct 09;50(78):11462-4. doi: 10.1039/c4cc05331a.

A photoswitchable bis-azo derivative with a high temporal resolution.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Jaume Garcia-Amorós, Marta Reig, Alba Cuadrado, Mario Ortega, Santi Nonell, Dolores Velasco

Affiliations

  1. Grup de Materials Orgànics, Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (IN2UB), Departament de Química Orgànica, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, E-08028, Barcelona, Spain. [email protected].

PMID: 25132052 DOI: 10.1039/c4cc05331a

Abstract

The novel photoswitchable bis-azo derivative reported herein shows a high temporal resolution of 2 × 10(8) times between the thermal relaxation rates of its two constituting photochromes. Moreover, the slow and fast azo building blocks of this molecular construct can be triggered by using UV and visible light, respectively.

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