Photochromic and Luminescent Properties of a Salt of a Hybrid Molecule Based on C₆₀ Fullerene and Spiropyran—A Promising Approach to the Creation of Anticancer Drugs

Abstract

For the first time a pyrrolidinofullerene salt containing a spiropyran group and an ammonium group, capable of reversibly reacting to UV radiation, has been synthesized. Photoinduced reactions of the synthesized compounds were studied using absorption and luminescence spectroscopies, spectral and kinetic characteristics were measured. The hybrid molecule was found to exhibit intrinsic fluorescence even in the spirocyclic form. The C60 derivative showed a higher stability and better spectral and luminescent properties than the precursor.

Keywords

• fullerene
• spiropyran
• merocyanine
• photochromism
• spectral–kinetic properties
• luminescent properties