Molecular switches

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Editors:
Prof. Wiktor Szymanski, University Medical Center Groningen
Prof. Stefan Hecht, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
 
Light offers outstanding possibilities for external regulation in a plethora of applications, which are enabled by molecular photoswitches that change their properties in a reversible manner upon illumination. This Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry thematic issue will cover all aspects of molecular photoswitches, from their discovery, design and synthesis, through spectroscopic and computational characterization, all the way to applications in materials, biological systems, and beyond. Contributions are invited that provide new insights into all facets of this multidisciplinary topic, ranging from physical and organic chemistry all the way to the materials and life sciences.
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Reversible end-to-end assembly of selectively functionalized gold nanorods by light-responsive arylazopyrazole–cyclodextrin interaction

  • Maximilian Niehues,
  • Patricia Tegeder and
  • Bart Jan Ravoo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1407–1415, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.140

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Published 26 Jun 2019

Diazocine-functionalized TATA platforms

  • Roland Löw,
  • Talina Rusch,
  • Fynn Röhricht,
  • Olaf Magnussen and
  • Rainer Herges

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1485–1490, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.150

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Published 05 Jul 2019

Norbornadiene-functionalized triazatriangulenium and trioxatriangulenium platforms

  • Roland Löw,
  • Talina Rusch,
  • Tobias Moje,
  • Fynn Röhricht,
  • Olaf M. Magnussen and
  • Rainer Herges

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1815–1821, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.175

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Published 30 Jul 2019

Fluorinated azobenzenes as supramolecular halogen-bonding building blocks

  • Esther Nieland,
  • Oliver Weingart and
  • Bernd M. Schmidt

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2013–2019, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.197

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Published 23 Aug 2019

Click chemistry towards thermally reversible photochromic 4,5-bisthiazolyl-1,2,3-triazoles

  • Chenxia Zhang,
  • Kaori Morinaka,
  • Mahmut Kose,
  • Takashi Ubukata and
  • Yasushi Yokoyama

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2161–2169, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.213

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Published 13 Sep 2019

Azologization and repurposing of a hetero-stilbene-based kinase inhibitor: towards the design of photoswitchable sirtuin inhibitors

  • Christoph W. Grathwol,
  • Nathalie Wössner,
  • Sören Swyter,
  • Adam C. Smith,
  • Enrico Tapavicza,
  • Robert K. Hofstetter,
  • Anja Bodtke,
  • Manfred Jung and
  • Andreas Link

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2170–2183, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.214

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Published 16 Sep 2019

Aggregation-induced emission effect on turn-off fluorescent switching of a photochromic diarylethene

  • Luna Kono,
  • Yuma Nakagawa,
  • Ayako Fujimoto,
  • Ryo Nishimura,
  • Yohei Hattori,
  • Toshiki Mutai,
  • Nobuhiro Yasuda,
  • Kenichi Koizumi,
  • Satoshi Yokojima,
  • Shinichiro Nakamura and
  • Kingo Uchida

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2204–2212, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.217

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Published 20 Sep 2019

Excited state dynamics for visible-light sensitization of a photochromic benzil-subsituted phenoxyl-imidazolyl radical complex

  • Yoichi Kobayashi,
  • Yukie Mamiya,
  • Katsuya Mutoh,
  • Hikaru Sotome,
  • Masafumi Koga,
  • Hiroshi Miyasaka and
  • Jiro Abe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2369–2379, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.229

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Published 04 Oct 2019

Targeted photoswitchable imaging of intracellular glutathione by a photochromic glycosheet sensor

  • Xianzhi Chai,
  • Hai-Hao Han,
  • Yi Zang,
  • Jia Li,
  • Xiao-Peng He,
  • Junji Zhang and
  • He Tian

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2380–2389, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.230

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Published 07 Oct 2019

Reversible switching of arylazopyrazole within a metal–organic cage

  • Anton I. Hanopolskyi,
  • Soumen De,
  • Michał J. Białek,
  • Yael Diskin-Posner,
  • Liat Avram,
  • Moran Feller and
  • Rafal Klajn

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2398–2407, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.232

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Published 10 Oct 2019

Effect of ring size on photoisomerization properties of stiff stilbene macrocycles

  • Sandra Olsson,
  • Óscar Benito Pérez,
  • Magnus Blom and
  • Adolf Gogoll

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2408–2418, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.233

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Published 11 Oct 2019

Photochromic diarylethene ligands featuring 2-(imidazol-2-yl)pyridine coordination site and their iron(II) complexes

  • Andrey G. Lvov,
  • Max Mörtel,
  • Anton V. Yadykov,
  • Frank W. Heinemann,
  • Valerii Z. Shirinian and
  • Marat M. Khusniyarov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2428–2437, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.235

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Published 15 Oct 2019

Ultrafast processes triggered by one- and two-photon excitation of a photochromic and luminescent hydrazone

  • Alessandro Iagatti,
  • Baihao Shao,
  • Alberto Credi,
  • Barbara Ventura,
  • Ivan Aprahamian and
  • Mariangela Di Donato

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2438–2446, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.236

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Published 15 Oct 2019

Experimental and computational electrochemistry of quinazolinespirohexadienone molecular switches – differential electrochromic vs photochromic behavior

  • Eric W. Webb,
  • Jonathan P. Moerdyk,
  • Kyndra B. Sluiter,
  • Benjamin J. Pollock,
  • Amy L. Speelman,
  • Eugene J. Lynch,
  • William F. Polik and
  • Jason G. Gillmore

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2473–2485, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.240

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Published 18 Oct 2019

In search of visible-light photoresponsive peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) for reversible control of DNA hybridization

  • Lei Zhang,
  • Greta Linden and
  • Olalla Vázquez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2500–2508, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.243

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Published 22 Oct 2019

A toolbox of molecular photoswitches to modulate the CXCR3 chemokine receptor with light

  • Xavier Gómez-Santacana,
  • Sabrina M. de Munnik,
  • Tamara A. M. Mocking,
  • Niels J. Hauwert,
  • Shanliang Sun,
  • Prashanna Vijayachandran,
  • Iwan J. P. de Esch,
  • Henry F. Vischer,
  • Maikel Wijtmans and
  • Rob Leurs

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2509–2523, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.244

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Published 23 Oct 2019

A photochemical determination of luminescence efficiency of upconverting nanoparticles

  • Baptiste Amouroux,
  • Clément Roux,
  • Jean-Claude Micheau,
  • Fabienne Gauffre and
  • Christophe Coudret

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2671–2677, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.260

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Published 11 Nov 2019

A combinatorial approach to improving the performance of azoarene photoswitches

  • Joaquin Calbo,
  • Aditya R. Thawani,
  • Rosina S. L. Gibson,
  • Andrew J. P. White and
  • Matthew J. Fuchter

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2753–2764, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.266

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Published 14 Nov 2019

A chiral self-sorting photoresponsive coordination cage based on overcrowded alkenes

  • Constantin Stuckhardt,
  • Diederik Roke,
  • Wojciech Danowski,
  • Edwin Otten,
  • Sander J. Wezenberg and
  • Ben L. Feringa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2767–2773, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.268

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Published 15 Nov 2019

Photoreversible stretching of a BAPTA chelator marshalling Ca2+-binding in aqueous media

  • Aurélien Ducrot,
  • Arnaud Tron,
  • Robin Bofinger,
  • Ingrid Sanz Beguer,
  • Jean-Luc Pozzo and
  • Nathan D. McClenaghan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2801–2811, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.273

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Published 21 Nov 2019

Chemical tuning of photoswitchable azobenzenes: a photopharmacological case study using nicotinic transmission

  • Lorenzo Sansalone,
  • Jun Zhao,
  • Matthew T. Richers and
  • Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2812–2821, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.274

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Published 21 Nov 2019

Design, synthesis and investigation of water-soluble hemi-indigo photoswitches for bioapplications

  • Daria V. Berdnikova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2822–2829, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.275

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Published 22 Nov 2019

Synthesis and characterization of bis(4-amino-2-bromo-6-methoxy)azobenzene derivatives

  • David Martínez-López,
  • Amirhossein Babalhavaeji,
  • Diego Sampedro and
  • G. Andrew Woolley

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 3000–3008, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.296

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Published 30 Dec 2019

Light-controllable dithienylethene-modified cyclic peptides: photoswitching the in vivo toxicity in zebrafish embryos

  • Sergii Afonin,
  • Oleg Babii,
  • Aline Reuter,
  • Volker Middel,
  • Masanari Takamiya,
  • Uwe Strähle,
  • Igor V. Komarov and
  • Anne S. Ulrich

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 39–49, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.6

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Published 07 Jan 2020

Reversible photoswitching of the DNA-binding properties of styrylquinolizinium derivatives through photochromic [2 + 2] cycloaddition and cycloreversion

  • Sarah Kölsch,
  • Heiko Ihmels,
  • Jochen Mattay,
  • Norbert Sewald and
  • Brian O. Patrick

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 111–124, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.13

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Published 23 Jan 2020

Potent hemithioindigo-based antimitotics photocontrol the microtubule cytoskeleton in cellulo

  • Alexander Sailer,
  • Franziska Ermer,
  • Yvonne Kraus,
  • Rebekkah Bingham,
  • Ferdinand H. Lutter,
  • Julia Ahlfeld and
  • Oliver Thorn-Seshold

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 125–134, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.14

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Published 27 Jan 2020
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