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An evanescent field driven mono-molecular layer photoswitch: coordination and release of metallated macrocycles
Michael J Cook1, Anne-Mette Nygård, Zhenxin Wang
1Wolfson Materials and Catalysis Centre, School of Chemical Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK NR4 7TJ. m.cook@uea.ac.uk
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 19, 2002
Abstract:
Photoswitching of 'on' and 'off' coordination sites in a self assembled monolayer containing the 4-(arylazo)pyridine chromophore has been achieved using the evanescent field and illustrated through coordination and photon induced release of zinc tetraphenylporphyrin.