Yanada Kosaku, Kato Sota, Aoki Daisuke, Mikami Koichiro, Sugita Hajime, Otsuka Hideyuki
Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan.
Sagami Chemical Research Institute, 2743-1 Hayakawa, Ayase, Kanagawa 252-1193, Japan.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2021 Mar 18;57(23):2899-2902. doi: 10.1039/d0cc08048a.
A non-symmetric radical-type mechanophore (CF/ABF) was synthesized by molecular crossing between two radical-type mechanophores. The thermal stability and mechanoresponsiveness of CF/ABF were found to be tunable by altering the properties of the parent RMs. The CF/ABF-centred polymers showed mixed mechanochromism derived from the simultaneous generation of two radical species.