Our fresh review paper about photoswitching via indirect excitation in Chemical Science is out!

Scheme of indirect photoswitching
TOC of the article

Sometimes a detour is the way to find a new exciting research direction and publish a review on it in Chemical Science.

Kim Kuntze from SPM in collaboration with other researchers from Tampere University, University of Helsinki, (USA), and Uppsala University (Sweden) wrote the review article about indirect photoisomerisation strategies from theoretical and practical points of view, giving insight into their fundamental mechanisms and demonstrating how they have been exploited to enable photoswitching with low-energy light. In the paper, the authors considered the often-overlooked thermal isomerisation routes and proposed how they can be either suppressed or exploited. They also provided an outlook on the remaining challenges and opportunities in this promising field of research. Read more…