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Triazole-Extended Anthracenes as Optical Force Probes

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: Optical force probes (OFPs) are force-responsive molecules that report on mechanically induced transformations by the alteration of their optical properties. Yet, their modular design and incorporation into polymer architectures at desired positions is challenging. Here we report triazole-extended anthracene OFPs that combine two modular ‘click’ reactions in their synthesis potentially allowing their incorporation at desirable positions in complex polymer materials. Importantly, these retain the excellent optical properties of their parent 9-π-extended anthracene OFP counterparts.

Source: Synlett

DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1720924

Authors: Robert Göstl, Christoph Baumann

Institutions: DWI – Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, RWTH Aachen University

Language: English

Topic: Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry

Subfield: Materials Chemistry

Field: Materials Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: European Commission, Volkswagen Foundation

Awards: European infrastructure for spectroscopy, scattering and imaging of soft matter, G2154937082