title: A chiral BINOL-bridged imidazole dimer possessing sub-millisecond fast photochromism.
abstract: We developed a chiral 1,1'-bi-2-naphthol-bridged imidazole dimer possessing 100 μs fast photochromism and high fatigue resistance. It offers great opportunities for the practical applications to fast photoresponsive chiral dopants, invisible security materials and optical trigger molecules to induce the dynamic structural changes in biological matters.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, School of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, 5-10-1 Fuchinobe, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-5258, Japan. jiro_abe@chem.aoyama.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Takahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Iwasaki
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Yoichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Jiro
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Abe