Issue 7, 2004
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Chemical Communications

The enhancement of photoswitching in a diarylethene derivative by the incorporation of cyanobiphenyl groups

Michel Frigolia  and  Georg H. Mehl*a  

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a Department of Chemistry, University of Hull, Hull, UK
E-mail: g.h.mehl@hull.ac.uk
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Abstract

A photochromic liquid crystal system based on a diarylethene functionalised in the 2,2′-positions and linked to 4-cyano-4′-hydroxybiphenyl groups via alkyl spacers as chromophores was synthesised and its photochromic and mesomorphic behaviour was investigated.

Graphical abstract: The enhancement of photoswitching in a diarylethene derivative by the incorporation of cyanobiphenyl groups

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B316146C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
11 Dec 2003
Accepted
10 Feb 2004
First published
23 Feb 2004

Chem. Commun., 2004, 818-819

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