Useful Spectrokinetic Methods for the Investigation of Photochromic and Thermo-Photochromic Spiropyrans

Abstract

This review reports on the main results of a set of kinetic elucidation methods developed by our team over the last few years. Formalisms, procedures and examples to solve all possible AB photochromic and thermophotochromic kinetics are presented. Also, discussions of the operating conditions, the continuous irradiation experiment, the spectrokinetic methods testing with numerical integration methods, and the identifiability/distinguishability problems, are included.

Keywords

• Spectrokinetic methods
• kinetic elucidation
• spiropyrans
• photochromic and thermochromic compounds