Issue 19, 2009
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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Light-driven molecular switches with tetrahedral and axial chirality†

Lisa Green,a   Yannian Li,a   Timothy White,b   Augustine Urbas,b   Timothy Bunningb  and  Quan Li*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA
E-mail: quan@lci.kent.edu
Fax: 330-672-2796
Tel: 330-672-1537

b Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory WPAFB, Ohio, USA

Abstract

Two light-driven molecular switches with tetrahedral and axial chirality were synthesized, which can induce a helical superstructure in an achiral liquid crystal host and dynamically phototune it to achieve reversible reflection color.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B910583B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
29 May 2009
Accepted
21 Jul 2009
First published
03 Aug 2009

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009,7, 3930-3933

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Light-driven molecular switches with tetrahedral and axial chirality

L. Green, Y. Li, T. White, A. Urbas, T. Bunning and Q. Li, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 3930 DOI: 10.1039/B910583B

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