Azobispyrazole Family as Photoswitches Combining (Near-)Quantitative Bidirectional Isomerization and Widely Tunable Thermal Half-Lives from Hours to Years [PDF]
, 2021 Azobenzenes are classical molecular photoswitches that have received widespread application. In recent endeavors of molecular design, replacing one or both phenyl rings by heteroaromatic ones is emerging as a strategy to expand the molecular diversity ...
Chunyang, Yu +5 more
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On the unexpected mechanism of isomerization in tautomerizable azo photoswitches [PDF]
Communications ChemistryIn recent years, there has been no shortage of research achievements in light-responsive materials based on azobenzene photoswitches. Of growing interest is the ability to reversibly tune the competing “dark" thermal cis-trans back-isomerization through ...
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Gain of Function Recyclable Photoswitches: Reversible Simultaneous Substitution and Photochromism Generation [PDF]
, 2023 The use of molecular photoswitches has spread to virtually every field of pure and applied chemistry because of the extraordinary level of control they provide over the behavior of matter at smallest scales.
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Effect of Stacking Interactions on Charge Transfer States in Photoswitches Interacting with Ion Channels [PDF]
, 2022 The activity of ion channels can be reversibly photo-controlled via the binding of molecular photoswitches, often based on an azobenzene scaffold, in their internal cavity.
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Water-soluble Azobenzene Photoswitches for Controlling Biological Systems [PDF]
, 2022 Photoswitches are small molecules that reversibly change their shape and properties upon irradiation with light of different colors. Since these molecules can be manipulated with nonharmful light from the outside at any given location and time ...
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Molecular photoswitches in liquid crystals
, 2022 One effective strategy to transmit light energy into a relevant molecular operation is the use of molecular photoswitches. Molecular rearrangements of such switches occurring upon absorbing light photons can be harnessed to modulate various macroscopic ...
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How Azobenzene Photoswitches Restore Visual Responses to the Blind Retina [PDF]
, 2016 Azobenzene photoswitches confer light sensitivity onto retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in blind mice, making these compounds promising candidates as vision-restoring drugs in humans with degenerative blindness. Remarkably, photosensitization manifests only
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Synthesis and characterization of indigo photoswitches [PDF]
, 2021 Controlling the function and properties of materials, pharmaceuticals and catalysts after manufacturing is essential for contemporary chemists. Such control can be achieved via use of molecular switches, which change their chemical and/or physical ...
Viljakka, Jani
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Photocontrolled DNA minor groove interactions of imidazole/pyrrole polyamides
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2020 Azobenzenes are photoswitchable molecules capable of generating significant structural changes upon E-to-Z photoisomerization in peptides or small molecules, thereby controlling geometry and functionality.
Sabrina Müller +5 more
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Rationally designed azobenzene photoswitches for efficient two-photon neuronal excitation
Nature Communications, 2019 Two-photon absorption capacity of azobenzene photoswitches usually comes with a reduction in thermal stability. Here, the authors developed photoswitches with high two-photon sensitivity and enhanced cis isomer thermal lifetime for the control of ...
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