TY - JOUR
T1 - Closing the cavity: reactive and light switchable dienone-ether macrocycles
AU - Higham, L T
AU - Scott, Janet
AU - Strauss, C R
PY - 2010/10
Y1 - 2010/10
N2 - Dienone-ether macrocycles may be reversibly switched from the thermodynamically stable E,E,E,E-isomers, with an open central cavity,to globular,cavity-closed E,E,Z,Z-isomers by the action of sunlight. They are restored to their open forms by gentle heating,but more intense heating may result in an intramolecular reaction,closing the cavity in a less easily reversed fashion.
AB - Dienone-ether macrocycles may be reversibly switched from the thermodynamically stable E,E,E,E-isomers, with an open central cavity,to globular,cavity-closed E,E,Z,Z-isomers by the action of sunlight. They are restored to their open forms by gentle heating,but more intense heating may result in an intramolecular reaction,closing the cavity in a less easily reversed fashion.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77957696691&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b926132j
U2 - 10.1039/b926132j
DO - 10.1039/b926132j
M3 - Article
SN - 1466-8033
VL - 12
SP - 2803
EP - 2808
JO - CrystEngComm
JF - CrystEngComm
IS - 10
ER -