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Compartmentalizing Donor-Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts for Structure-Property Relationship Analysis
Cesar A Reyes1, Alexander Karr1, Chloe A Ramsperger1
1Department of Chemistry, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States.
Abstract:
The development of photoswitches that absorb low energy light is of notable interest due to the growing demand for smart materials and therapeutics necessitating benign stimuli. Donor-acceptor Stenhouse adducts (DASAs) are molecular photoswitches that respond to light in the visible to near-infrared spectrum. As a result of their modular assembly, DASAs can be modified at the donor, acceptor, triene, and backbone heteroatom molecular compartments for the tuning of optical and photoswitching properties. This Perspective focuses on the electronic and steric contributions at each compartment and how they influence photophysical properties through the adjustment of the isomerization energetic landscape. An emphasis on current synthetic strategies and their limitations highlights opportunities for DASA architecture, and thus photophysical property expansion.
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