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  • Title: Efficient Cycloreversion Reaction of a Diarylethene Derivative in Higher Excited States Attained by Off-Resonant Simultaneous Two-Photon Absorption.
    Author: Sotome H, Nagasaka T, Une K, Okui C, Ishibashi Y, Kamada K, Kobatake S, Irie M, Miyasaka H.
    Journal: J Phys Chem Lett; 2017 Jul 20; 8(14):3272-3276. PubMed ID: 28677972.
    Abstract:
    Off-resonant excitation of the closed-ring isomer of a photochromic diarylethene derivative at 730 nm induced the efficient cycloreversion reaction with a yield of ∼20%, while the reaction yield was only 2% under one-photon excitation at 365 nm. Excitation wavelength dependence of the one-photon cycloreversion reaction yield under steady-state irradiation in a wide wavelength range showed that the specific electronic state leading to the large cycloreversion reaction yield, which is originally forbidden in the optical transition but partially allowed owing to the low symmetry of the molecule, is spectrally overlapped with the electronic state accessible by the allowed one-photon optical transition in the UV region. Femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy also revealed that the off-resonant two-photon excitation preferentially pumped the molecule into the specific state, leading to the 10-fold enhancement of the cycloreversion reaction.
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