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Novel Techniques for Observing Structural Dynamics of Photoresponsive Liquid Crystals
Published on: May 29, 2018
Capturing irreversible photoswitching in trans-cinnamic acid by small molecule synchrotron serial crystallography
Sam G Lewis1,2, Ben A Coulson2, Debashish Das1
1School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, CF10 3AT, UK. HatcherL1@cardiff.ac.uk.
Abstract
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Small molecule synchrotron serial crystallography (smSSX) is used to monitor irreversible photodimerization in α-trans-cinnamic acid, enabling structure determination of intermediate states and quantification of batch-level reaction heterogeneity.

