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Desacoplamiento electrónico en andamios simétricos de Tris (azobenzeno) sensibles a la luz: autoensamblaje y

Agostino Galanti¹, Valentin Diez-Cabanes², Jasmin Santoro³

¹Université de Strasbourg, CNRS , ISIS UMR 7006 , 8 allée Gaspard Monge , 67000 Strasbourg , France.

Journal of the American Chemical Society

|November 2, 2018

Resumen

Los investigadores crearon una nueva molécula con tres unidades de azobenzeno sensibles a la luz. Esta molécula multifotocrómica se autoensambla en estructuras ordenadas, conservando sus propiedades en 2D.

Área de la Ciencia:

Química supramolecular
Ciencias de los materiales
La fotoquímica

Sus antecedentes:

Las moléculas multifotocrómicas ofrecen funcionalidades avanzadas de respuesta a la luz.
Controlar el autoensamblaje molecular es clave para diseñar materiales funcionales.
Los derivados de azobenzeno se estudian ampliamente por sus propiedades de fotoisomerización.

Objetivo del estudio:

Para sintetizar y caracterizar una nueva molécula multi-fotocromática C3-simétrica.
Investigar la fotoisomerización simultánea de varias unidades de azobenzeno.
Explorar el comportamiento de autoensamblaje y la formación de la arquitectura supramolecular en solución y en superficies.

Principales métodos:

Síntesis de una molécula simétrica de C3 con tres unidades de azobenzeno.
Espectroscopia de absorción UV y cromatografía líquida de alto rendimiento (HPLC) para estudios de soluciones.
Microscopía de túnel de barrido (STM) en la interfaz sólido-líquido y modelado molecular para el análisis de ensamblajes superficiales.

Principales resultados:

Síntesis exitosa de la molécula multifotocrómica objetivo.
Se ha demostrado la fotoisomerización simultánea de todas las unidades de azobenceno en solución.
Se observa el autoensamblaje dinámico en arquitecturas supramoleculares ordenadas en una superficie, conservando el multifotocromismo en 2D.

Conclusiones:

El andamio rígido desacopla efectivamente las unidades de azobenzeno, lo que permite la isomerización simultánea.
La molécula exhibe un autoensamblaje controlado en patrones ordenados.
El multifotocromismo se conserva en conjuntos supramoleculares de dos dimensiones confinados.

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