Beilstein J. Org. Chem.2012,8, 1003–1017, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.113
-chromophore and the thermal cis-to-trans isomerisation, the kinetics and mechanism are also discussed as a key point for reaching azoderivatives endowed with fast thermal back-isomerisation kinetics.
Keywords: kinetics; light-controlled materials; molecular switches; photochromic switches; push–pull
azophenols; thermal isomerisation; Introduction
Nowadays, there is an ever growing interest in molecular switching materials because of the very rapid development of modern technology. This tendency arises from the great applicability of such systems as active data elaboration, storage and communication
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Graphical Abstract
Figure 1:
Some important families of photochromic compounds and their photochromic reactions.