Issue 23, 2020

A simplicity-guided cocktail approach toward multicolor fluorescent systems

Abstract

A molecular cocktail containing two photochromic diarylethene derivatives that displays multicolor emission spanning blue-green to orange in a color-correlated fashion has been devised. The function does not rely on excited state communication such as energy transfer reactions, which is the typical case for similar systems. Instead, harnessing the intrinsic fluorescent and photochromic properties of the two individual diarylethene derivatives run in parallel is enough to realize the color changes. This offers an extremely flexible situation as for the choice of the fluorophores and their respective concentrations. The function is conveniently demonstrated in bulk solution at μM concentrations, where a single light source serves as the color changing stimulus.

Graphical abstract: A simplicity-guided cocktail approach toward multicolor fluorescent systems

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
28 Dec 2019
Accepted
13 Feb 2020
First published
24 Feb 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Commun., 2020,56, 3377-3380

A simplicity-guided cocktail approach toward multicolor fluorescent systems

G. Naren, S. Li and J. Andréasson, Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 3377 DOI: 10.1039/C9CC10040G

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