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Synfacts 2009(11): 1212-1212  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1218096
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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Switchable Molecular Wires

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Jose M. Lobez
S. G. Robinson, V. A. Sauro, R. H. Mitchell*
University of Victoria, Canada
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22 October 2009 (online)

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Significance

The authors report the syntheses of a series of oligothiophene-based molecular wires with a dihydropyrene (DHP) core. The photochromic response of this core, which experiences a ­reversible disruption of its conjugation, is used as basis for the on/off switching of the molecular wires.