CiteULike is a free online bibliography manager. Register and you can start organising your references online.
Tags

Gold(I)-Coordination Triggered Multistep and Multiple Photochromic Reactions in Multi-Dithienylethene (DTE) Systems

by: Bin Li, Yu-Hui Wu, Hui-Min Wen, Lin-Xi Shi, Zhong-Ning Chen
Inorg. Chem. In Inorganic Chemistry, Vol. 51, No. 3. (18 January 2012), pp. 1933-1942, doi:10.1021/ic202265u  Key: citeulike:12164510

Formatted Citation


Show HTML

Likes (beta)

This copy of the article hasn't been liked by anyone yet.

View FullText article


Abstract

The preparation, characterization, and photochromic properties of a mononuclear gold(I) complex (1oo) with two identical DTE-acetylides and a dinuclear gold(I) complex (2ooo) with both DTE-acetylide and DTE-diphosphine are described. Both gold(I) complexes exhibit multistep and multiple photocyclization/cycloreversion reactions. Particularly, four-state and four-color photochromic switch is successfully achieved for the dinuclear gold(I) complex upon irradiation with appropriate wavelengths of light. In contrast, fully ring-closed form is unattained through multiple photocyclization for the two corresponding model organic compounds coupling with the same DTE units as gold(I) complexes but without gold(I)-participation. It is demonstrated that coordination of gold(I) ion to DTE-acetylides exerts indeed a crucial role in achieving stepwise and selective photocyclization and cycloreversion reactions for both gold(I) complexes, in which the coordinated gold(I) atom acts as an effective ?barrier? to prohibit intramolecular energy transfer between multi-DTE moieties.


aegeddi's tags for this article

Citations (CiTO)

No CiTO relationships defined

X There are no reviews yet

X Find related articles with these CiteULike tags

X Posting History


X Export records

Privacy Statement | Terms & Conditions
CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. It helps undergraduates and postgraduates. People studying for PhDs or in postdoctoral (postdoc) positions. The service is similar in scope to EndNote or RefWorks or any other reference manager like BibTeX, but it is a social bookmarking service for scientists and humanities researchers.