Recent progress on photochromic diarylethene polymers

Luo, Qianfu; Cheng, Hui; Tian, He

doi:10.1039/c1py00167a

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“…Although polymers incorporating either traditional photochromic systems (e.g., spiropyrans and DTEs; [47,48]) or organoboron functionalities [49][50][51][52][53] have been widely explored, photochromic polymers with a switchable boron core remained unknown until recently [54]. These polymers (Fig.…”

Section: Photochromic Organoboron Copolymersmentioning

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Isomerization and rearrangement of boriranes: from chemical rarities to functional materials

Mellerup

Wang

2018

Sci. China Mater.

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Stimuli responsive materials have recently been the subject of tremendous research efforts owing to their numerous potential applications. Although there currently exist many different types of "smart" materials, those based on photoresponsive transformations are especially attractive. In this review, we focus on a relatively new class of photochromic molecules based on the photochemistry of chelate organoborates, which form intensely colored, base-stabilized boriranes. Recent efforts to exploit the reactivity of these systems are summarized, and future prospects in materials science discussed.

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Section: Photochromic Organoboron Copolymersmentioning

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Isomerization and rearrangement of boriranes: from chemical rarities to functional materials

Mellerup

Wang

2018

Sci. China Mater.

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“…Photochromic synthetic polymers have a broad range of applications as their properties such as viscosity, shape, and membrane permeability, can be varied to suit a particular purpose [20,21]. Polymers containing azobenzenes, diarylethenes, and fulgimides have been used in information storage [22,23], as “on”/”off” switches in biological systems [20–22,24–30], and surface patterning [16]. …”

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Photochromic copolymers containing 3-indolylfulgides/indolylfulgimides: Synthesis and photochemical properties in toluene and as films

Islamova

Chen

Fan

et al. 2013

Polymer Degradation and Stability

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Photochromic indolylfulgimides covalently attached to polymers have beneficial properties for optical switching. A 3-indolylfulgide and two 3-indolylfulgimides with one or two polymerizable styrene groups attached on the nitrogen atom(s) were synthesized. Copolymerization with methyl methacrylate (MMA) provided linear copolymers (one styrene group) or a cross-linked copolymer (two styrene groups). The properties of the monomers and copolymers in toluene or as thin films were characterized. The new copolymers were photochromic (reversible Z-to-C isomerization), absorbed visible light, and revealed good thermal and photochemical stability. At room temperature, all copolymer films showed no loss of absorbance after 5 weeks. At 80 °C in either toluene or as films, the Z-forms copolymers were less stable than the C-form copolymers, which showed little or no degradation after 400 h. The degradation rate due to repeated ring-closing – ring opening cycles was less than 3% per 100 cycles. The cross-linked copolymer showed photochemical stability comparable to monomeric fulgides in toluene, <1% per 100 cycles. In general, the properties of the linear and cross-linked copolymers were similar to the corresponding monomers in toluene. In films, the conformations of the Z-form were restricted due to the matrix indicating that the preparation of films from the C-form is advantageous.

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“…During the past decades, there have been important achievements in the synthesis of new families of organic photochromic molecules [3,6,7]. For example, the diarylethenes having two thiophenes [8], furans [9] and thiazoles [10][11][12] exhibit excellent thermal stability, and the ones with two indoles, pyrrols, and benzenes are thermally unstable [12,13]. Nevertheless, the hexatriene backbones necessary for the versatility of the diarylethenes reported so far have been mostly limited to the fivemembered aryl rings.…”

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Synthesis and Properties Study of 1-(2,4-dimethoxyl-5-pyrimidinyl)-2-[2-methyl-5-(3-methyl)-phenyl-3-thienyl] Perfluorocyclopentene

Liu¹,

Liu²,

Pu³

2016

Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Materials Chemistry and Environmental Protection (Meep-15)

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Recent progress on photochromic diarylethene polymers

Cited by 97 publications

References 89 publications

Isomerization and rearrangement of boriranes: from chemical rarities to functional materials

Isomerization and rearrangement of boriranes: from chemical rarities to functional materials

Photochromic copolymers containing 3-indolylfulgides/indolylfulgimides: Synthesis and photochemical properties in toluene and as films

Synthesis and Properties Study of 1-(2,4-dimethoxyl-5-pyrimidinyl)-2-[2-methyl-5-(3-methyl)-phenyl-3-thienyl] Perfluorocyclopentene

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