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Controlled tautomeric switching in azonaphthols tuned by substituents on the phenyl ring

Antonov, Liudmil ; Deneva, Vera ; Simeonov, Svilen ; Kurteva, Vanya ; Crochet, Aurélien ; Fromm, Katharina M. ; Shivachev, Boris ; Nikolova, Rositsa ; Savarese, Marika ; Adamo, Carlo

In: ChemPhysChem, 2015, vol. 16, no. 3, p. 649–657

A series of new tautomeric azonaphthols are synthesized and the possibilities for molecular switching are investigated using molecular spectroscopy, X-ray analysis and density functional theory quantum chemical calculations. Two opposite effects that influence switching are studied: attaching a piperidine sidearm, and adding substituents to the phenyl ring. On the one hand, the attached...

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Controlled tautomerism – switching caused by an ‘underground’ anionic effect

Antonov, Liudmil ; Deneva, Vera ; Kurteva, Vanya ; Nedeltcheva, Daniela ; Crochet, Aurélien ; Fromm, Katharina M.

In: RSC Advances, 2013, vol. 3, no. 47, p. 25410–25416

In a previous communication, we demonstrated a conceptual idea for a tautomeric switching system based on implementation of a flexible piperidine unit in 4- (phenyldiazenyl)naphthalen-1-ol (1). The results showed that a directed shift in the position of the tautomeric equilibrium can be achieved through protonation/deprotonation in a number of solvents. However, the effect of the counter ion...

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Tautomerism in 1-phenylazo-4-naphthols: experimental results vs quantum-chemical predictions

Antonov, Liudmil ; Kurteva, Vanya ; Crochet, Aurélien ; Mirolo, Laurent ; Fromm, Katharina M. ; Angelova, Silvia

In: Dyes and Pigments, 2012, vol. 92, no. 1, p. 714–723

The reliability in the description of the tautomerism of 1-phenylazo-4-naphthol by using of HF and MP2 ab initio levels of theory and DFT methods with variety of pure GGA (OLYP), hybrid (B3LYP and B3PW91), long range corrected (LC-BLYP) and double-hybrid (B2PLYP and mPW2PLYP) functionals with large number of basis sets was estimated. In this evaluation three criteria were used: reproduction...