Journal article

Authors list: Reuter, R; Wegner, HA

Publication year: 2011

Pages: 12267-12276

Journal: Chemical Communications

Volume number: 47

Issue number: 45

ISSN: 1359-7345

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1039/c1cc13773e

Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry

Abstract: 
The possibility to modulate molecules reversibly by light has been fascinating chemists early on. One of the most powerful photochromic classes of compounds are azobenzenes, which have been incorporated in multiple molecular systems to alter their functionality. Recently, the incorporation of azobenzenes into macrocyclic scaffolds, azobenzenophanes, revealed a novel aspect of this interesting photoswitch. Especially, the build-in of more than one azobenzene moiety into the structure creates photochromic compounds with multiple accessible states. The cyclic arrangement also leads to a change in the photochemical properties, which offer new opportunities for functional molecular devices. In this article the synthesis as well as the photochemistry including applications of macrocyclic azobenzenes, containing more than one azobenzene unit, oligoazobenzenophanes, are reviewed.

Harvard Citation style: Reuter, R. and Wegner, H. (2011) Oligoazobenzenophanes-synthesis, photochemistry and properties, Chemical Communications, 47(45), pp. 12267-12276. https://doi.org/10.1039/c1cc13773e

APA Citation style: Reuter, R., & Wegner, H. (2011). Oligoazobenzenophanes-synthesis, photochemistry and properties. Chemical Communications. 47(45), 12267-12276. https://doi.org/10.1039/c1cc13773e