Diarylethene (DAE) photoswitches, known for their reversible photoinduced cyclization and
cycloreversion reactions, have shown great promise in various fields such as optical data …

Photochromism is defined as a reversible transformation of a chemical species between two
isomers having different absorption spectra induced in one or both directions by …

Doubled up: a rhodium (III)/copper (II) system co-catalyzes the annulation of benzimides with
internal alkynes for the synthesis of indenones (see scheme; Cp*= C (5) Me (5)). The …

Ready for action: An excellent quantum yield was observed for a photocoloration reaction of
a photochromic molecule based on a triangular terarylene structure. The molecule is …

Endowing both solvent independency and excellent thermal bistability, the benzobis
(thiadiazole)‐bridged diarylethene system provides an efficient approach to realize …

Three novel dithienylethenes modified by bifluoroboron β-diketonate fragments have been
successfully developed. Upon blue light irradiation, they reached photostationary state …

An efficient copper-catalyzed radical cascade cyclization strategy was developed, by which
a wide variety of 3-sulfonyl substituted indenones were prepared in one pot via reaction of 2 …

A photochromic terarylene (BTO) containing a benzo [b] thiophene-1, 1-dioxide unit as a
central ethene bridge was synthesized and characterized, and exhibits good thermal …

The Rh-catalyzed direct annulation of an aldehyde with an alkyne leading to indenone was
achieved. The in situ temporal installation of acetylhydrazine enables the annulation of the …

For a long time, starting from pioneering works of M. Irie in the late 80 s and early 90 s of the
last century, photochromic diarylethenes were primarily associated with dithienylethenes …