Tunable photosalient behaviours within coordination polymers via functional molecular prearrangements

Jia-Wei Wu; Bing-Fan Long; Meng-Fan Wang; David James Young; Fei-Long Hu; Yan Mi; Jian-Ping Lang

doi:10.1039/d1cc07139d

Tunable photosalient behaviours within coordination polymers via functional molecular prearrangements

Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 Feb 22;58(16):2674-2677. doi: 10.1039/d1cc07139d.

Authors

Jia-Wei Wu¹, Bing-Fan Long¹, Meng-Fan Wang^{1

2}, David James Young³, Fei-Long Hu¹, Yan Mi¹, Jian-Ping Lang²

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Chemistry and Engineering of Forest Products, State Ethnic Affairs Commission, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Chemistry and Engineering of Forest Products, Guangxi Collaborative Innovation Center for Chemistry and Engineering of Forest Products, Guangxi University for Nationalities, Nanning 530006, China. hflphd@163.com.
² College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, People's Republic of China. jplang@suda.edu.cn.
³ College of Engineering, IT and Environment, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia.

PMID: 35107453
DOI: 10.1039/d1cc07139d

Abstract

Four Cd(II)/diene coordination polymers (CPs) with similar 1D chain motifs exhibit different photosalient (PS) behaviours in response to UV light. The [2+2] photoreaction between the CC groups within these CPs results in diverse PS behaviours of their crystals with different CC pair arrangements. The interesting PS behaviours of these CPs can be applied in design and fabrication of advanced photoactuating materials.