Structural and mechanistic insights into an Fe3+-triggered quinazoline based molecular rotor

• DOI: 10.1039/c4cc01917b
• Publication Date: 2014-06-12T08:30:45Z
• Authors: Rampal Pandey; Gábor Méhes; Amit Kumar; Rakesh Kumar Gupta; Chihaya Adachi; Daya Shankar Pandey
• Keywords: 01 natural sciences; 0104 chemical sciences

Highly fluorescent, multifunctional and thermoreversible conformational switching (1) has been designed and developed by embedding two imidazo[1,2-c]quinazoline (IQ) units in the pyridyl scaffold. The origin of the conformational and optical switching of 1 to 1′ has been established by various studies and by developing a model compound.