Molecular switches

Researchers led by Jiří Kaleta of IOCB Prague have synthesized regular 2D assemblies of isotopically labelled molecular switches and measured the properties of their isomerization, revealing that formation of such an assembly doesn’t hamper the photochemical switching properties of the embedded molecules. The isotopic labels came into use when measuring the switching properties using an analytic technique dependent on the labels. The team published the results in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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Original paper: Santos Hurtado, C.; Bastien, G.; Mašát, M.; Štoček, J. R.; Dračínský, M.; Rončević, I.; Císařová, I.; Rogers, C. T.; Kaleta, J., Regular Two-Dimensional Arrays of Surface-Mounted Molecular Switches: Switching Monitored by UV–vis and NMR Spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2020. http://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c01753