Fluorescence Switches: Ferrocene‐Grafted Photochromic Triads Based on a Sterically Hindered Ethene Bridge: Redox‐Switchable Fluorescence and Gated Photochromism (Advanced Optical Materials 9/2016)

On page 1410, a new gated photochromism and fluorescence switches are successfully achieved in a ferrocene-modified diarylethene system with a sterically hindered ethene bridge. The photoinactive parallel conformer and photoactive antiparallel conformer are individually investigated by W.-H. Zhu and co-workers. The different conformers show redox-gated photochromism and reversible redox reactions can also switch the fluorescence of the naphthalimide chromophore “ON” and “OFF”.