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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 139, 期 44, 页码 15792-15800出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b08021
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- Japan Science Technology Agency (JST), PRESTO [JPMJPR13KD, JPMJPR12K5, JPMJPR16P6]
- JSPS KAKENHI [JP15H02103, JP17K17893, JP15H05482, JP17H05258, JP26107004, JP17H06375]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15H02103, 17H06375, 15H05482, 17H05258, 15J04926, 17K17893] Funding Source: KAKEN
Aromaticity of photoexcited molecules is an important concept in organic chemistry. Its theory, Baird's rule for triplet aromaticity since 1972 gives the rationale of photoinduced conformational changes and photochemical reactivities of cyclic pi-conjugated systems. However, it is still challenging to monitor the dynamic structural change induced by the excited-state aromaticity, particularly in condensed materials. Here we report direct structural observation of a molecular motion and a subsequent packing deformation accompanied by the excited-state aromaticity. Photoactive liquid crystal (LC) molecules featuring a pi-expanded cyclooctatetraene core unit are orientationally ordered but loosely packed in a columnar LC phase, and therefore a photoinduced conformational planarization by the excited-state aromaticity has been successfully observed by time-resolved electron diffractometry and vibrational spectroscopy. The structural change took place in the vicinity of excited molecules, producing a twisted stacking structure. A nanoscale torque driven by the excited-state aromaticity can be used as the working mechanism of new photoresponsive materials.
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