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The mechanodonor-acceptor coupling (MDAC) approach for unidirectional multi-state fluorochromism

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Uni-directional multi-state fluorochromic scaffolds are valuable photofunctional molecules and yet scarce. We report a general approach for their design, i.e., mechanodonor-acceptor coupling (MDAC). A photochromic molecule is a mechanodonor, due to its capability to convert photonic energy into mechanical force. Upon proper coupling, it can be used to drive a mechanochromic molecule for uni-directional multi-state fluorochromism. The embodiment of this approach is a rhodamine-dithienylethylene hydride (RDH), which has been successfully employed in super-resolution localization microscopy

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21822805, 21922704, 21877069, 21908065, 22078098), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2019M651427, 2020T130197) and the Commission of Science and Technology of Shanghai Municipality (18430711000).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China

    Luyan Gu, Weihong Zhu, Xuhong Qian & Youjun Yang

  2. School of Life Sciences, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Lujia Zhang & Chunlai Chen

  3. State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China

    Meng Lv & Jinquan Chen

  4. School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China

    Xiao Luo

  5. School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China

    Weihong Zhu

  6. State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China

    Ying Zheng, Zhiwei Ye & Yi Xiao

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Gu, L., Zhang, L., Luo, X. et al. The mechanodonor-acceptor coupling (MDAC) approach for unidirectional multi-state fluorochromism. Sci. China Chem. 64, 253–262 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-020-9874-6

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