An effective trigger for energy release of vinylheptafulvene-based solar heat batteries

Martina Cacciarini; Alexandru Vlasceanu; Martyn Jevric; Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen

doi:10.1039/C7CC01050H

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An effective trigger for energy release of vinylheptafulvene-based solar heat batteries†

Martina Cacciarini,

*^ab Alexandru Vlasceanu,

^b Martyn Jevric

^b and Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen

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^a Department of Chemistry ‘Ugo Schiff’, Università di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia, 3-13, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
E-mail: martina.cacciarini@unifi.it
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^b Department of Chemistry, Center for Exploitation of Solar Energy, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

Abstract

Stoichiometric copper(I) tetrakis(acetonitrile) is found to activate the thermal ring-closure reaction of a series of high-energy vinylheptafulvene isomers to the corresponding low-energy and photoactive dihydroazulenes, allowing the release of energy upon request.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC01050H
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 09 Feb 2017
Accepted: 08 May 2017
First published: 08 May 2017

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Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 5874-5877

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M. Cacciarini, A. Vlasceanu, M. Jevric and M. B. Nielsen, Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 5874 DOI: 10.1039/C7CC01050H

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An effective trigger for energy release of vinylheptafulvene-based solar heat batteries†

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