Symmetry as a new element to control molecular switches

Azobenzene Photoswitches for Staudinger-Bertozzi Ligation

(2013) Wiktor Szymański et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Highly Strained Phenylene Bicyclophanes

(2013) Gabi Ohlendorf et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photoswitching Azo Compounds in Vivo with Red Light

(2013) Subhas Samanta et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Sequence-Specific Peptide Synthesis by an Artificial Small-Molecule Machine

(2013) B. Lewandowski et al.   SCIENCE

The role of statistics and microenvironment for the photoresponse in multi-switch architectures: The case of photoswitchable oligoazobenzene foldamers

(2013) Zhilin Yu et al.   Chemical Science

Photophysical pore control in an azobenzene-containing metal–organic framework

(2013) Jonathan W. Brown et al.   Chemical Science

Azo-Propofols: Photochromic Potentiators of GABAAReceptors

(2012) Marco Stein et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

meta-Oligoazobiphenyls – synthesis via site-selective Mills reaction and photochemical properties

(2012) Raphael Reuter et al.   Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

Recent advances towards azobenzene-based light-driven real-time information-transmitting materials

(2012) Jaume García-Amorós et al.   Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

Cyclotetraazocarbazole – a multichromic molecule

(2012) Luca Schweighauser et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Switchable 3D networks by light controlled π-stacking of azobenzene macrocycles

(2012) Raphael Reuter et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Nonlinear Optical Molecular Switches as Selective Cation Sensors

(2012) Benoît Champagne et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

o-Fluoroazobenzenes as Readily Synthesized Photoswitches Offering Nearly Quantitative Two-Way Isomerization with Visible Light

(2012) David Bléger et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Visible Light Switching of a BF2-Coordinated Azo Compound

(2012) Yin Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Optically switchable transistor via energy-level phototuning in a bicomponent organic semiconductor

(2012) Emanuele Orgiu et al.   Nature Chemistry

A switching cascade of hydrazone-based rotary switches through coordination-coupled proton relays

(2012) Debdas Ray et al.   Nature Chemistry

Kinetic analysis of the thermal isomerisation pathways in an asymmetric double azobenzene switch

(2012) Jort Robertus et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Terrylene bisimide-diarylethene photochromic switch

(2012) Martin Berberich et al.   Chemical Science

Switching with orthogonal stimuli: electrochemical ring-closure and photochemical ring-opening of bis(thiazolyl)maleimides

(2012) Martin Herder et al.   Chemical Science

Tuning Photochromic Ion Channel Blockers

(2011) Alexandre Mourot et al.   ACS Chemical Neuroscience

Induction of Point Chirality by E/Z Photoisomerization

(2011) P. K. Hashim et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Empty Helical Nanochannels with Adjustable Order from Low-Symmetry Macrocycles

(2011) Martin Fritzsche et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Oligoazobenzenophanes—synthesis, photochemistry and properties

(2011) Raphael Reuter et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Photoisomerization in different classes of azobenzene

(2011) H. M. Dhammika Bandara et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Synthesis and Isomerization Studies of Cyclotrisazobiphenyl

(2011) Raphael Reuter et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Synthesis and Photochemical Properties of Oligo-ortho-azobenzenes

(2011) Silvia Bellotto et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Electronic Decoupling Approach to Quantitative Photoswitching in Linear Multiazobenzene Architectures

(2011) David Bléger et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Single-Molecule Fluorescence Photoswitching of a Diarylethene−Perylenebisimide Dyad: Non-destructive Fluorescence Readout

(2011) Tuyoshi Fukaminato et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Engineering Solid-State Morphologies in Carbazole–Ethynylene Macrocycles

(2011) Aaron D. Finke et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Azobenzene Photoswitching without Ultraviolet Light

(2011) Andrew A. Beharry et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Chiral Cyclotrisazobiphenyl: Synthesis and Photochemical Properties

(2011) Raphael Reuter et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Magnetic Bistability of Molecules in Homogeneous Solution at Room Temperature

(2011) S. Venkataramani et al.   SCIENCE

Photoswitches: From Molecules to Materials

(2010) Maria-Melanie Russew et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Bridged Azobenzene Derivative as a Reversible, Light-Induced Chirality Switch

(2010) Gebhard Haberhauer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photoinduced isothermal phase transitions of liquid-crystalline macrocyclic azobenzenes

(2010) Yasuo Norikane et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Macrocyclic Amphiphiles with 1,8-Anthrylene Fluorophores: Synthesis and Attempts toward Two-Dimensional Organization

(2010) Patrick Kissel et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Kinetic study of the fast thermal cis-to-trans isomerisation of para-, ortho- and polyhydroxyazobenzenes

(2010) Jaume Garcia-Amorós et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Synthesis and Property Studies of Cyclotrisazobenzenes

(2009) Raphael Reuter et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Shape-Switchable Azo-Macrocycles

(2009) Marcel Müri et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Cis–trans isomerization mechanism of 4-aminoazobenzene in the S0 and S1 states: A CASSCF and DFT study

(2009) Luoxin Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY A-CHEMISTRY

Highly Efficient ReversibleZ−EPhotoisomerization of a Bridged Azobenzene with Visible Light through Resolved S1(nπ*) Absorption Bands

(2009) Ron Siewertsen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Force-induced activation of covalent bonds in mechanoresponsive polymeric materials

(2009) Douglas A. Davis et al.   NATURE

Azobenzenes as Light-Controlled Molecular Electronic Switches in Nanoscale Metal−Molecule−Metal Junctions

(2008) Jeffrey M. Mativetsky et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY