Shaping crystals with light: Crystal-to-crystal isomerization and photomechanical effect in fluorinated azobenzenes

Oleksandr S. Bushuyev; Anna Tomberg; Tomislav Friščić; Christopher J. Barrett

doi:10.1021/ja4063019

Shaping crystals with light: Crystal-to-crystal isomerization and photomechanical effect in fluorinated azobenzenes

Oleksandr S. Bushuyev, Anna Tomberg, Tomislav Friščić^*, Christopher J. Barrett

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Abstract

Unusually long thermal half-lives of perhalogenated cis-azobenzenes enabled their structural characterization and the first evidence of a crystal-to-crystal cis → trans azobenzene isomerization. Irradiation with visible light transforms a perhalogenated cis-azobenzene single crystal into a polycrystalline aggregate of its trans-isomer in a photomechanical transformation that involves a significant, controllable, and thermally irreversible change of crystal shape. This is the first demonstration of permanent photomechanical modification of crystal shape in an azobenzene.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	12556-12559
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of the American Chemical Society
Volume	135
Issue number	34
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/ja4063019
Publication status	Published - 28 Aug 2013

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Colloid and Surface Chemistry

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