Synfacts 2010(2): 0168-0168  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1219087
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart ˙ New York

Moving Molecules with Light

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Trisha L. Andrew
A. Jacquart, P. Tauc, K. Nakatani, E. Ishow*
ENS Cachan, France
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Publication Date:
21 January 2010 (online)

Significance

The synthesis of a fluorescent azobenzene photochrome is reported. The presence of a bulky triptycenoid spacer prevents intramolecular fluorescence quenching and thus ­imparts orthogonality to the photochromic and ­fluorescent moieties of the molecule. The photoinduced migration of this photochrome is used to reversibly create reliefs.