Photon-Working Switches

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Reviews for Photon-working Switch Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. New Trends in Spiro-compounds Photochromic Metals Sensors: Quantitative Aspects

      • C. Coudret, A. V. Chernyshev, A. V. Metelitsa, J. C. Micheau

      Pages 3-35

   3. Novel Ethene-Bridged Diarylethene Photochromic Systems: Self-Assembly, Photoswitcher, and Molecular Logic Gates

      • Shangjun Chen, Wenlong Li, Wei-Hong Zhu

      Pages 37-68

   4. Properties and Applications of Indolinooxazolidines as Photo-, Electro-, and Acidochromic Units

      • György Szalóki, Lionel Sanguinet

      Pages 69-91

   5. Strategies for Switching with Visible Light

      • David Bléger, Stefan Hecht

      Pages 93-114

3. Development of Novel Photoswitches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. Turn-On Mode Fluorescent Diarylethenes

      • Masakazu Morimoto, Masahiro Irie

      Pages 117-131

   3. Fluorescent Switchable Diarylethene Derivatives and Their Application to the Imaging of Living Cells

      • Yueyuan Mao, Tao Yi

      Pages 133-152

   4. Photochromism of Pentaarylbiimidazoles and Phenoxyl-Imidazolyl Radical Complexes

      • Yoichi Kobayashi, Jiro Abe

      Pages 153-167

   5. Diarylethenes that Photoswitch with Visible Light

      • Tuyoshi Fukaminato, Masahiro Irie

      Pages 169-180

   6. Light-Sensitive Organic Recording Media for Three-Dimensional Optical Memory

      • Valery Barachevsky, Mikhail Krayushkin, Vadim Kiyko

      Pages 181-207

   7. Photochromism of Naphthopyrans Possessing a Spirophenanthrene Unit and the Ophthalmic Lens Comprising of Them

      • Junji Momoda, Yasushi Yokoyama

      Pages 209-222

4. Photophysics of Photoswitches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223

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   2. Multiphoton-Gated Photochromic Reactions Induced by Pulsed Laser Excitation

      • Hiroshi Miyasaka, Syoji Ito, Yukihide Ishibashi

      Pages 225-235

   3. Ultrafast Photoswitching Dynamics of Azobenzenes with Intra- and Intermolecular Constraints

      • Falk Renth, Julia Bahrenburg, Friedrich Temps

      Pages 237-259

   4. Polyfunctional Photochromic Magnetic Materials Based on 3D Metal (Tris) Oxalates

      • Sergey M. Aldoshin, Nataliya A. Sanina

      Pages 261-284

   5. Photo-Modulation of Superconducting and Magnetic Properties

      • Takashi Yamamoto, Keisuke Natsui, Yasuaki Einaga

      Pages 285-299

   6. NMR Spectroscopy to Investigate Switching Reactions

      • Stéphanie Delbaere

      Pages 301-319

   7. Modeling Diarylethene Excited States with Ab Initio Tools: From Model Systems to Large Multimers

      • Martial Boggio-Pasqua, Aurélie Perrier, Arnaud Fihey, Denis Jacquemin

      Pages 321-341

This book focuses on photoswitches. The objective of the book is to introduce researchers and graduate course students who are interested in "photon-working switches" not only to the fundamentals but also to the latest research being carried out in this field. Light can reach a target substrate without any physical contact to deliver energy. The energy can induce changes in the structure of the molecules included in the substrate so that its properties and functions are made switchable by light irradiation. When a substrate is able to revert to its original state, this system can be regarded as a "photon-working switch". The terms "photon-working switches" or "photoswitches" are almost equivalent in meaning to "photochromism"; however, they focus on the "switching of functions" of chemical species rather than their "reversible transformation". Most of the authors of this volume are members of PHENICS, an international research group on organic molecular photoswitches composed of research institutions from France, Japan, Russia, China and Germany.  Since its inception in 2008, PHENICS has promoted active research to develop the field. This book commemorates the group's eighth year of collaborative research.

• Excited state
• Photochemistry
• Photochromism
• Photoresponsive materials
• Photoswitch

• Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan

  Yasushi Yokoyama

• École normale supérieure de Cachan, Université Paris-Saclay, Cachan, France

  Keitaro Nakatani

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