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NMR Spectroscopy to Investigate Switching Reactions

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Despite its poor time resolution and low sensitivity compared with classical spectrophotometric methods, modern NMR is now a highly developed spectroscopy technique, appropriate for photochromism studies owing to its high spectral resolution and the large panel of NMR sequences that offer detailed structural and quantitative information. NMR spectroscopy can therefore be applied to answer questions concerning which compounds are produced, how they are formed, and how they evolve and behave within the photochromic reaction. In this chapter, we reported the characterization of the eight interconvertible states addressable selectively, offering the most complex multiaddressable molecule known to date; the reactivity of photochromic compounds associated with crown ethers for complexation with metal cations; and the behavior of hexaarylbiimidazole derivatives elucidated owing to a new experimental setup coupling NMR and in situ light irradiation.

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I am greatly indebted to my co-authors, i.e., the colleagues and students who have been engaged in the research work described here, performed within the framework of GDRI CNRS 93 “Phenics” (Photoswitchable Organic Molecular Systems & Devices).

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Delbaere, S. (2017). NMR Spectroscopy to Investigate Switching Reactions. In: Yokoyama, Y., Nakatani, K. (eds) Photon-Working Switches. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56544-4_15

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