Metal-ion stabilization of photoinduced open colored isomer in crowned spirobenzothiapyran

Abstract

A spirobenzothiapyran derivative bearing a monoaza-12-crown-4 moiety affords significant thermal stability enhancement in the UV light induced colored merocyanine form of its photochromic moiety by metal-ion complexation of its crown ether moiety, although the complexation hardly induces the isomerization without photoirradiation.

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