DOI: 10.1039/d3sc02165c ISSN:
2,3-Diarylmaleate salts as a versatile class of diarylethenes with a full spectrum of photoactivity in water
Iumzhana A. Bolotova, Alexander O. Ustyuzhanin, Ekaterina S. Sergeeva, Anna A. Faizdrakhmanova, Yu Hai, Andrey V. Stepanov, Igor A. Ushakov, Konstantin A. Lyssenko, Lei You, Andrey G. Lvov- General Chemistry
Potassium 2,3-diarylmaleates feature a full spectrum of photoactivity of diarylethenes in water, including irreversible oxidative cyclization and rearrangement as well as reversible photocyclization (switching).