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Professor Matthew J. Fuchter

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry

Professor of Chemistry
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 5815m.fuchter

 
 
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Location

 

110DMolecular Sciences Research HubWhite City Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Fuchter:2016:10.1039/c5cc10380k,
author = {Fuchter, MJ and Weston, CE and Richardson, RD},
doi = {10.1039/c5cc10380k},
journal = {Chemical Communications},
pages = {4521--4524},
title = {Photoswitchable basicity through the use of azoheteroarenes},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5cc10380k},
volume = {52},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Azoheteroarene photoswitches offer functional advantages over their more conventional azobenzene counterparts by virtue of their heteroaromatic ring(s). Here we report that azobis(2-imidazole) functions as a photoswitchable base due to the additional proton stabilisation that is possible in the protonated Z isomer, facilitated by the basic imidazole nitrogens. This thermodynamic difference in stability corresponds to a 1.3 unit difference in pKa values between the E and Z isomers. This pKa difference can be used to reversibly control solution pH.
AU  - Fuchter,MJ
AU  - Weston,CE
AU  - Richardson,RD
DO  - 10.1039/c5cc10380k
EP  - 4524
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 1364-548X
SP  - 4521
TI  - Photoswitchable basicity through the use of azoheteroarenes
T2  - Chemical Communications
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5cc10380k
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/30261
VL  - 52
ER  -
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