Molecular folding screen: folding and unfolding of 1,8-anthrylene-ethynylene oligomers by photochemical cycloaddition and thermal cycloreversion.
Molecular folding screens consisting of anthracene plates and acetylene linkers stereoselectively fold into a zigzag form by [4 + 4]photocycloaddition, and unfold by thermal cycloreversion.
Toyota
Shinji
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Department of Chemistry, Okayama University of Science, 1-1 Ridaicho, Okayama 700-0005, Japan. stoyo@chem.ous.ac.jp
Kuga
Makoto
M
Takatsu
Akiko
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Goichi
Michio
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Iwanaga
Tetsuo
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