Multimodal mechanophores that react under mechanical force to produce discrete product states with uniquely coupled absorption properties are interesting targets for the design of force-sensing polymers. Herein, we investigate the reactivity of a 2H-bis-naphthopyran mechanophore that generates thermally persistent mono-merocyanine and bis-merocyanine products upon mechanical activation in solution using ultrasonication, distinct from the thermally reversible products generated photochemically. We demonstrate that a force-mediated ester C(O)–O bond scission reaction following ring opening establishes an intramolecular hydrogen bond, locking one merocyanine subunit in the open form. Model compound studies suggest that this locked subunit confers remarkable thermal stability to bis-merocyanine isomers possessing a trans exocyclic alkene on the other subunit, implicating the formation of an unusual trans merocyanine isomer as the product of mechanochemical activation. Density functional theory calculations unexpectedly predict a thermally reversible retro-cyclization reaction of the bis-merocyanine species that could explain the mechanochemical generation of the unusual trans merocyanine isomer.
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Picosecond laser ultrasonic measurements of interlayer elastic properties of 2H-MoSe2 and 2H-WSe2
- Award ID(s):
- 1709521
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10227147
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Materials Today Chemistry
- Volume:
- 18
- Issue:
- C
- ISSN:
- 2468-5194
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 100369
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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