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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 132, Issue 51, Pages 18361-18366Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja108437n
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-09-1-0193]
- Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory
- National Science Foundation [IIP 0750379]
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We report here a fast-photon-mode reversible handedness inversion of a self-organized helical superstructure (i.e., a cholesteric liquid crystal phase) using photoisomerizable chiral cyclic dopants. The two light-driven cyclic azobenzenophanes with axial chirality show photochemically reversible trans to cis isomerization in solution without undergoing thermal or photoinduced racemization. As chiral inducing agents, they exhibit good solubility, high helical twisting power, and a large change in helical twisting power due to photoisomerization in three commercially available, structurally different achiral liquid crystal hosts. Therefore, we were able to reversibly tune the reflection colors from blue to near-IR by light irradiation from the induced helical superstructure. More interestingly, the different switching states of the two chiral cyclic dopants were found to be able to induce a helical superstructure of opposite handedness. In order to unambiguously determine the helical switching, we employed a new method that allowed us to directly determine the handedness of the long-pitched self-organized cholesteric phase.
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