Synthesis, Photochromism and Optical Storage of a Novel Diarylethene Compound

Abstract:

A new unsymmetrical photochromic diarylethene 1a was synthesized and its photochromism were investigated. The compound exhibited good photochromism in solution with alternating irradiation by UV/Vis light, and the maxima absorption of its closed-ring isomer is 542 nm. The open-ring isomer exhibited relatively strong fluorescence at 420 nm. Its fluorescence intensity decreased along with the photochromism from open-ring isomer to closed-ring isomer upon irradiation with UV light.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 830)
• Pages: 294-297
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.830.294
• Online since: October 2013
• Authors: Hong Yan Xu, Hai Chang Ding, Shou Zhi Pu*
• Keywords: Diarylethene, Fluorescence, Photochromism

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