Study on the Controlled Gel Formation and Photochromic Properties of a New Cholesterol-bridge-naphthopyran Dyad

Bulletin of the Korean chemical society

Longbo Liu¹  Guang Wang¹  Lin Sun¹  Ai Xia Wang¹ 

关键词: Gel;    Ultrasound;    Photochromic;    Naphthopyran;    Cholesterol;   

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学科分类：化学（综合）

来源: Korean Chemical Society

【 摘 要 】

A cholesterol-bridge-naphthopyran dyad (NP-MCB) was designed and synthesized. NP-MCB can readily selfassemble into gels under ultrasound-radiation in several organic solvents and the formed gels easily transfer to solution by heat. This reversible process can be repeated many times. Scanning Electron Microscopy results showed that the morphologies of all formed xerogels in different solvents have fibrillar microstructure. The gels formation was due to energy and pressure afforded by the ultrasonic process, resulting in formation of molecular hydrogen bonding and molecular aggregation. NP-MCB displayed the normal photochromism both in solution and gel states. The kinetic results confirm that the colored merocyanine in gels show a slower fading speed than that in solution due to the compact aggregation of NP-MCB molecules in gels. The xerogel film formed in polar gelling solvent had large surface wettability than that in nonpolar gelling solvent.

【 授权许可】

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