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Novel Techniques for Observing Structural Dynamics of Photoresponsive Liquid Crystals
Published on: May 29, 2018
Designing Visible Light-Induced Intra- and Inter-module Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal [2+2] Photodimerizations in
Mollah Rohan Ahsan1, Arijit Mukherjee1
1Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal, Medchal District, Telangana, 500078, India.
Abstract:
Two binary organic salts of isomeric stilbazole derivatives were designed through manipulation of large synthon modules, and predictable fast and slow photo-induced cracking, under visible-light irradiation, was correlated with large synthon differences. The single-crystal-to-single-crystal transitions, referred to as inter- and intra-module transitions, enable direct structure-property analysis of the crystal structures and their resulting properties.
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