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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 11, Issue 30, Pages 8025-8035Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0sc02540b
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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In this work we develop photoreactive cocrystals/salts of a commercially-important diacetylene, 10,12-pentacosadiynoic acid (PCDA,1) and report the first X-ray crystal structures of PCDA based systems. The topochemical reactivity of the system is modified depending on the coformer used and correlates with the structural parameters. Crystallisation of1with 4,4 '-azopyridine (2), 4,4 '-bipyridyl (3), andtrans-1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethylene (4) results in unreactive 2 : 1 cocrystals or a salt in the case of 4,4 '-bipiperidine (5). However, salt formation with morpholine (6), diethylamine (7), andn-butylamine (8), results in highly photoreactive salts1(2)center dot 7and1 center dot 8whose reactivity can be explained using topochemical criteria. The salt1 center dot 6is also highly photoreactive and is compared to a model morpholinium butanoate salt. Resonance Raman spectroscopy reveals structural details of the photopolymer including its conformational disorder in comparison to less photoactive alkali metal salts and the extent of solid state conversion can be monitored by CP-MAS NMR spectroscopy. We also report an unusual catalysis in which amine evaporation from photopolymerised PCDA ammonium salts effectively acts as a catalyst for polymerisation of PCDA itself. The new photoreactive salts exhibit more reactivity but decreased conjugation compared to the commercial lithium salt and are of considerable practical potential in terms of tunable colours and greater range in UV, X-ray, and gamma-ray dosimetry applications.
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