Issue 37, 2009
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Chemical Communications

Control and modulation of chirality for azobenzene-substituted polydiacetylene LB films with circularly polarized light†

Gang Zou,*a   Hao Jiang,a   Hideki Kohn,b   Takaaki Manakab  and  Mitsumasa Iwamoto*b  

* Corresponding authors

a CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Science and Technology in Anhui Province, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
E-mail: gangzou@ustc.edu.cn

b Department of Physical Electronics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
E-mail: iwamoto@pe.titech.ac.jp

Abstract

Herein, photo-controlled rearrangement of the azobenzene chromophore in the side chains was used to realize enantioselective polymerization and light-triggered reversible switching between opposite chirality for the PDA backbone.

Graphical abstract: Control and modulation of chirality for azobenzene-substituted polydiacetylene LB films with circularly polarized light

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B909085A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
19 May 2009
Accepted
13 Jul 2009
First published
03 Aug 2009

Chem. Commun., 2009, 5627-5629

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Control and modulation of chirality for azobenzene-substituted polydiacetylene LB films with circularly polarized light

G. Zou, H. Jiang, H. Kohn, T. Manaka and M. Iwamoto, Chem. Commun., 2009, 5627 DOI: 10.1039/B909085A

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