Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Iminothioindoxyl as a molecular photoswitch with 100 nm band separation in the visible range

  • Mark W. H. Hoorens,
  • Miroslav Medved’,
  • Adèle D. Laurent,
  • Mariangela Di Donato,
  • Samuele Fanetti,
  • Laura Slappendel,
  • Michiel Hilbers,
  • Ben L Feringa,
  • Wybren Jan Buma,
  • Wiktor Szymanski

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10251-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The design of photoswitches which operate in the visible light regime, show a large separation of absorption bands and are functional in various solvents is challenging. Here the authors report Iminothioindoxyls as visible-light operated photoswitches with a band separation of 100 nm.