{"id":208,"date":"2019-11-29T11:23:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T10:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/denis.frath\/?p=208"},"modified":"2020-04-23T17:06:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T15:06:12","slug":"multi-functional-switches-of-ditopic-ligands-with-azobenzene-central-bridges-at-a-molecular-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/denis.frath\/2019\/11\/29\/multi-functional-switches-of-ditopic-ligands-with-azobenzene-central-bridges-at-a-molecular-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-functional switches of ditopic ligands with azobenzene central bridges at a molecular scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our article is available to read at <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2019\/nr\/c9nr06350a#!divAbstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nanoscale<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2019\/nr\/c9nr06350a#!divAbstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-209 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/denis.frath\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Get-300x99.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a>Ligands are designed to have ditopic bipyridine terminal groups linked through photochromic azobenzene central units, which exhibit multi-switchable properties by different external stimuli. The molecule can switch between <em>cis<\/em>-and <em>trans<\/em>-conformations at their bipyridine terminal groups upon protonation and at their central azobenzene units upon irradiation of photons. As a result, the system shows four different isomeric states: <em>ci<\/em>s\u2013<em>TRANS<\/em>, <em>tran<\/em>s\u2013<em>TRANS<\/em>, <em>ci<\/em>s\u2013<em>CIS<\/em> and <em>tran<\/em>s\u2013<em>CIS<\/em>. The four conformers are switched and are visualized by scanning tunneling microscopy at the solid\u2013liquid interface, which gives a direct demonstration of the multi-functional switches at a molecular level.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our article is available to read at Nanoscale Ligands are designed to have ditopic bipyridine terminal groups linked through photochromic azobenzene central units, which exhibit multi-switchable properties by different external stimuli. The molecule can switch between cis-and trans-conformations at their bipyridine terminal groups upon protonation and at their central azobenzene units upon irradiation of photons. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/denis.frath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/denis.frath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/denis.frath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/denis.frath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/denis.frath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/denis.frath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/denis.frath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/denis.frath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/denis.frath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/denis.frath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}