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  • Patel, Dinesh G Dan; Walton, Ian M; Cox, Jordan M; Gleason, Cody J; Butzer, David R; Benedict, Jason B

    Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), 01/2014, Volume: 50, Issue: 20
    Journal Article

    The synthesis and characterization of novel photochromic diarylethene-based linkers for use in metal–organic frameworks is described including crystal structure analysis of nearly all reaction intermediates. The bis-carboxylated dithien-3-ylphenanthrenes can be prepared under relatively mild conditions in high yield and were subsequently used to create a photoresponsive metal–organic framework, UBMOF-1. While the photochromism of the ligand TPDC in solution is fully reversible, the cycloreversion reaction is suppressed when this linker is incorporated into the crystalline framework of UBMOF-1.