Tuning Azoheteroarene Photoswitch Performance through Heteroaryl Design was written by Calbo, Joaquin;Weston, Claire E.;White, Andrew J. P.;Rzepa, Henry S.;Contreras-Garcia, Julia;Fuchter, Matthew J.. And the article was included in Journal of the American Chemical Society in 2017.Category: esters-buliding-blocks This article mentions the following:
A systematic computational and exptl. study to elucidate the origin of the long thermal half-lives and excellent addressability of the arylazopyrazoles is reported, and this understanding is used to determine important structure-property relationships for a wide array of comparable azoheteroaryl photoswitches. The authors identify compounds with Z isomer half-lives ranging from seconds to hours, to days and to years, and variable absorption characteristics, all through tuning of the heteroaromatic ring. Conformation perhaps plays the largest role in determining such properties: the compounds with the longest isomerization half-lives adopt a T-shaped ground state Z isomer conformation and proceed through a T-shaped isomerization pathway, whereas the most complete photoswitching is achieved for compounds that have a twisted (rather than T-shaped) Z isomer conformation. By balancing these factors, the authors report a new azopyrazole 3pzH, which can be quant. switched to its Z isomer ( > 98%) with 355 nm irradiation, near-quant. (97%) switched back to the E isomer with 532 nm irradiation, and has a very long half-life for thermal isomerization (t1/2 = 74 d at 25 °C). In the experiment, the researchers used many compounds, for example, Ethyl 4-methyl-1H-pyrrole-3-carboxylate (cas: 2199-49-7Category: esters-buliding-blocks).
Ethyl 4-methyl-1H-pyrrole-3-carboxylate (cas: 2199-49-7) belongs to esters. Esters perform as high-grade solvents for a broad array of plastics, plasticizers, resins, and lacquers, and are one of the largest classes of synthetic lubricants on the commercial market. Polyesters are important plastics, with monomers linked by ester moieties. Esters contain a carbonyl center, which gives rise to 120° C–C–O and O–C–O angles. Unlike amides, esters are structurally flexible functional groups because rotation about the C–O–C bonds has a low barrier. Their flexibility and low polarity is manifested in their physical properties; they tend to be less rigid (lower melting point) and more volatile (lower boiling point) than the corresponding amides. Category: esters-buliding-blocks
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