Ultrafast ring-opening and solvent-dependent product relaxation of photochromic spironaphthopyran

Simon Felix Bittmann, Raison Dsouza, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Stuart A. Hayes, Andreas Rossos, Gastón Corthey, Michal Kochman, Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, R. Scott Murphy, Heinrich Schwoerer, R.J. Dwayne Miller
2019 Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP  
The ultrafast dynamics of unsubstituted spironaphthopyran (SNP) were investigated using femtosecond transient UV and visible absorption spectroscopy in three different solvents and semi-classical nuclear dynamics simulations. The primary ring-opening of...
doi:10.1039/c9cp02950h fatcat:es2qdjjpz5ai3leve6fw324uz4