{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Das P"],"funding":["University of Florida","NIH Office of the Director","NIH HHS","National Science Foundation"],"pagination":["764-776"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12581192"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["13(3)"],"pubmed_abstract":["(Chir)optical molecular photoswitches have garnered significant attention for their applications in asymmetric synthesis, supramolecular chemistry, and the materials sciences. The planar chirality and associated photophysical and chiroptical properties of [2.2]paracyclophane ([2.2]pCp) derivatives have been long appreciated. Even so, chiral photoswitches incorporating the [2.2]pCp framework remain largely unexplored. Dicyanorhodanine (RCN), conjugated with oligothiophenes and pyrroles, has been recently shown as a highly competent photoisomerizable scaffold. The current work introduces a novel photoswitch system combining an electron-rich [2.2]pCp moiety with an electron-deficient RCN unit, as a planar chiral \"push-pull\" architecture. Single crystal X-ray study reveals the <i>Z</i> configu"],"journal":["Organic chemistry frontiers : an international journal of organic chemistry"],"pubmed_title":["[2.2]Paracyclophane-dicyanorhodanine conjugates as planar chiral molecular photoswitches."],"pmcid":["PMC12581192"],"funding_grant_id":["CHE-1828064","S10 OD030250","S10 OD021758","S10 OD021758-01A1","CHE-2203754","S10 OD030250-01A1"],"pubmed_authors":["Dobrzycki L","Stearns CD","Castellano RK","Das P","Ghiviriga I"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"[2.2]Paracyclophane-dicyanorhodanine conjugates as planar chiral molecular photoswitches.","description":"(Chir)optical molecular photoswitches have garnered significant attention for their applications in asymmetric synthesis, supramolecular chemistry, and the materials sciences. The planar chirality and associated photophysical and chiroptical properties of [2.2]paracyclophane ([2.2]pCp) derivatives have been long appreciated. Even so, chiral photoswitches incorporating the [2.2]pCp framework remain largely unexplored. Dicyanorhodanine (RCN), conjugated with oligothiophenes and pyrroles, has been recently shown as a highly competent photoisomerizable scaffold. The current work introduces a novel photoswitch system combining an electron-rich [2.2]pCp moiety with an electron-deficient RCN unit, as a planar chiral \"push-pull\" architecture. Single crystal X-ray study reveals the <i>Z</i> configu","dates":{"release":"2026-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2026 Feb","modification":"2026-07-14T21:03:26.524Z","creation":"2026-06-25T03:08:05.751Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12581192","cross_references":{"pubmed":["41189672"],"doi":["10.1039/d5qo01401h"]}}