Photo-switching and -cyclisation of hydrogen bonded liquid crystals based on resveratrol

Meik Blanke; Jan Balszuweit; Marco Saccone; Christoph Wölper; David Doblas Jiménez; Markus Mezger; Jens Voskuhl; Michael Giese

doi:10.1039/c9cc07721a

Photo-switching and -cyclisation of hydrogen bonded liquid crystals based on resveratrol

Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Jan 23;56(7):1105-1108. doi: 10.1039/c9cc07721a.

Authors

Meik Blanke¹, Jan Balszuweit, Marco Saccone, Christoph Wölper, David Doblas Jiménez, Markus Mezger, Jens Voskuhl, Michael Giese

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Organic Chemistry and CENIDE, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraße 7, Essen 45141, Germany. jens.voskuhl@uni-due.de michael.giese@uni-due.de.

PMID: 31894766
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc07721a

Abstract

A series of hydrogen-bonded liquid crystals based on resveratrol and resveratrone is reported and investigated with respect to their photo-switchability (at 405 nm) and photo-cyclisation (at 300 nm).