Michael Lawson and Sara Eisler
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2012,10, 8770-8773
DOI:
10.1039/C2OB26679B,
Communication
Switches are frequently used to provide external control over the conformation and function of organic and bio-organic molecules. While the use of bistable switches is widespread, multi-stable examples are observed relatively rarely. Reported here is a new class of molecular switch that is capable of forming three stable states of varied geometries, two of which can be induced to interconvert reversibly using either light or acid.
