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Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 May 10;54(39):4983-4986. doi: 10.1039/c8cc01091a.

Coumarin-diene photoswitches for rapid and efficient isomerization with visible light.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Matthew T Richers, Dinh Du Tran, Josef Wachtveitl, Graham C R Ellis-Davies

Affiliations

  1. Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA. [email protected].

PMID: 29707710 PMCID: PMC5945326 DOI: 10.1039/c8cc01091a

Abstract

We have developed 7-diethylaminocoumarin-based chromophores that photoisomerize with visible light. These photoswitches possess many desirable attributes, including large extinction coefficients (18 600-59 100 M-1 cm-1), high quantum yields (0.45-0.50) and resistance to photofatigue. Additionally, time-resolved spectroscopy indicates that both isomerization reactions are complete in less than 1 ns.

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