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Claire E. Weston

Tuning Azoheteroarene Photoswitch Performance through Heteroaryl Design

International audience; Photoswitchable compounds, which can be reversibly switched between two isomers by light, continue to attract significant attention for a wide array of applications. Azoheteroarenes represent a relatively new but understudied type of photoswitch, where one of the aryl rings from the conventional azobenzene class has been replaced with a five-membered heteroaromatic ring. Initial studies have suggested the azoheteroarenes – the arylazopyrazoles in particular – to have excellent photoswitching properties (quantitative switching and long Z isomer half-life). Here we present a systematic computational and experimental study to elucidate the origin of the long thermal hal…

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CCDC 1503532: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

Related Article: Joaquín Calbo, Claire E. Weston, Andrew J. P. White, Henry S. Rzepa, Julia Contreras-García, Matthew J. Fuchter|2017|J.Am.Chem.Soc.|139|1261|doi:10.1021/jacs.6b11626

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CCDC 1503530: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

Related Article: Joaquín Calbo, Claire E. Weston, Andrew J. P. White, Henry S. Rzepa, Julia Contreras-García, Matthew J. Fuchter|2017|J.Am.Chem.Soc.|139|1261|doi:10.1021/jacs.6b11626

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CCDC 1503531: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

Related Article: Joaquín Calbo, Claire E. Weston, Andrew J. P. White, Henry S. Rzepa, Julia Contreras-García, Matthew J. Fuchter|2017|J.Am.Chem.Soc.|139|1261|doi:10.1021/jacs.6b11626

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