Structure-property relationships in normal and mixed dithienylethenes – polyoxometalates supramolecular assemblies with fast solid-state photochromic properties

Author(s):  
Oleh Stetsiuk ◽  
Patricia Bolle ◽  
Marie Cordier ◽  
Julien Boixel ◽  
Rémi Dessapt

Five new highly photochromic hybrid organic-inorganic materials were successfully prepared by supramolecular assembly of normal (1+) and mixed (2+) cationic dithienylethenes (DTEs) and polyoxometalates (POMs) units. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies...

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 1379-1393
Author(s):  
Pierre-Olivier Schwartz ◽  
Sebastian Förtsch ◽  
Astrid Vogt ◽  
Elena Mena-Osteritz ◽  
Peter Bäuerle

A new novel family of tricyclic sulfur and/or selenium-containing heterotriacenes 2–4 with an increasing number of selenium (Se) atoms is presented. The heterotriacene derivatives were synthesized in multistep synthetic routes and the crucial cyclization steps to the stable and soluble fused systems were achieved by copper-catalyzed C–S and C–Se coupling/cyclization reactions. Structures and packing motifs in the solid state were elucidated by single crystal X-ray analysis and XRD powder measurements. Comparison of the optoelectronic properties provides interesting structure–property relationships and gives valuable insights into the role of heteroatoms within the series of the heterotriacenes. Electrooxidative polymerization led to the corresponding poly(heterotriacene)s P2–P4.


Author(s):  
Linqi Shi ◽  
Zipei Sun ◽  
Jiajie Tian ◽  
Yaodong Huang ◽  
Jiben Meng

Four naphthopyran derivatives, namely, 3,3-bis(naphthalen-1-yl)-3H-naphtho[2,1-b]pyran, C33H22O, NP1, 3,3-bis([1,1′-biphenyl]-4-yl)-3H-naphtho[2,1-b]pyran, C37H26O, NP2, 3,3-bis(4-phenoxyphenyl)-3H-naphtho[2,1-b]pyran, C37H26O2, NP3, and 3,3-bis(4-methoxy-2-methylphenyl)-3H-naphtho[2,1-b]pyran, C29H26O3, NP4, were synthesized and their photochromic properties investigated. NP1–NP4 exhibited good photochromism in different solutions and in poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) film under UV light irradiation. Solvatochromism and the electronic and steric effects of the substituent group on photochromism were analyzed and decolouration curves were found to fit a monoexponential kinetic decay in most cases. Single-crystal X-ray analysis of NP1 and NP2 revealed the structure–property relationships. Good fatigue resistance of NP1, both in solution and in the PMMA film, endows it with potential value for applications.


2004 ◽  
Vol 844 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Scurr ◽  
Stephen J. Eichhorn

ABSTRACTThis study uses various characterisation techniques on the razor shell (Ensis siliqua), to relate the shell's microstructure to its mechanical properties. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has shown that the outer and inner regions of the shell are composed of simple and complex crossed lamellar microstructures respectively. These layers are interspersed by prismatic layers of a completely different crystallographic orientation. Nanoindentation and microhardness measurements have shown that the structure is anisotropic, and Raman band shifts have been observed within these indented/deformed areas of shell, showing that the microstructure deforms rather than generating surface damage. The use of energy variable synchrotron X-ray diffraction has shown that the calcium carbonate crystals of the shell are preferentially orientated as a function of depth and that opposing residual stresses exist at the outer and inner regions of the shell. This study has analysed several microstructural features of the shell and provided an insight into how they prevent failure of the material.


2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajay Venugopal ◽  
Alexander Willner ◽  
Norbert W. Mitzel

The reaction of N,O-bis(trimethylsilyl)hydroxylamine with potassium hydride in pentane affords a product of the formula {K6[OSiMe3]4[ON(SiMe3)2]2}, resulting from deprotonation followed by N-O bond cleavage and 1,2-silylshift. The compound was characterised by elemental analysis and by single crystal X-ray diffraction. The aggregate consists of a K3O3 bis-cubane core, with N(SiMe3)2 groups at the oxygen atoms shared by the two cubes, andMe3Si groups attached to the four O vertices. Two weak K···N interactions are also detected in the solid state structure.


1980 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 313 ◽  
Author(s):  
PR Jefferies ◽  
BW Skelton ◽  
B Walter ◽  
AH White

Following the suggestion made earlier, on the basis of solution spectroscopy, that a number of eriostyl/nitrobenzoate compounds form charge-transfer self-complexes, a number of these have been investigated structurally by single-crystal X-ray diffraction methods in order to ascertain the presence or otherwise of such interactions in the solid state. The substances thus studied were eriostyl 3,5-dinitrobenzoate (1), eriostyl p-nitrobenzoate (2), tetrahydroeriostyl 3,5-dinitrobenzoate (3), and eriostemyl 3,5-dinitrobenzoate (4);* structure determinations in all cases, although displaying the presence of strong charge-transfer interactions from the two moieties of each molecule, show that the interactions in the solid state are intermolecular in nature.


1995 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 699-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert W. Mitzel ◽  
Jürgen Riede ◽  
Klaus Angermaier ◽  
Hubert Schmidbaur

The solid-state structure of N,N-dibenzylhydroxylamine (1) has been determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction. The compound crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P 21/n with four formula units in the unit cell. N,N-dibenzylhydroxylamine dimerizes to give N2O2H2 sixmembered rings as a result of the formation of two hydrogen bonds O - H ··· N in the solid state.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (17) ◽  
pp. 9298-9307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Baikie ◽  
Nathan S. Barrow ◽  
Yanan Fang ◽  
Philip J. Keenan ◽  
Peter R. Slater ◽  
...  

This article describes a variable temperature solid-state NMR and single crystal X-ray/neutron diffraction study of the hybrid perovskites (CH3NH3)PbX3 (X = I, Br and Cl).


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