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ArticleChemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2025

Azobenzene-Based Glycomacrocycles: Synthesis, Photoisomerization, and Photomodulation of Liquid Crystal Helical Pitch with Helix Inversion.

Gaoyu Li, Reo Hatano, Stéphane Maisonneuve, Ken-Ichi Iimura, Yuna Kim, Juan Xie

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Article in Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Gaoyu LiPPSM, Université Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91190, France.
Reo HatanoSchool of Engineering, Utsunomiya University, 7-1-2, Yoto, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, 321-8585, Japan.
Stéphane MaisonneuvePPSM, Université Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91190, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0459-3459
Ken-Ichi IimuraSchool of Engineering, Utsunomiya University, 7-1-2, Yoto, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, 321-8585, Japan.
Yuna KimSchool of Engineering, Utsunomiya University, 7-1-2, Yoto, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, 321-8585, Japan.
Juan XiePPSM, Université Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91190, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7664-5532

Funding

Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial FoundationIketani FoundationJSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research KAKENHI 19K05624Utsunomiya University C3Fund
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Novel azobenzene-embedded glycomacrolactones bearing different substituents on the glucopyranoside ring have been synthesized and characterized by NMR spectroscopy, UV/vis spectroscopy, and circular dichroism (CD), then applied for cholesteric liquid crystal photomodulation. All the macrocycles displayed good photochromic properties, fatigue resistance, thermal bistability, and chiroptical activity. As chiral dopants for nematic liquid crystal (NLC), an amplification of helix upon E to Z photoisomerization and enforcement of helical twisting power (HTP) at Z-rich state have been observed. We also demonstrated the critical influence of sugar-ring functionalization in governing chirality transfer and photoswitching behavior in cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs). Two of the synthesized glycomacrocycles uniquely achieved photoinduced helix inversion-marking the first such example for this class of compounds.

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cholesteric liquid crystalglycomacrocyclic azobenzenehelical twisting powerphotoinduced helix inversionphotoisomerization

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PMID41133929
PMCPMC12624314

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