@article { ISI:000272185400021,
	title = {Successful Bifunctional Photoswitching and Electronic Communication of Two Platinum(II) Acetylide Bridged Dithienylethenes},
	journal = {JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY},
	volume = {131},
	number = {46},
	year = {2009},
	month = {NOV 25},
	pages = {16644+},
	abstract = {Coordinating two dithienylethenes to a platinum center results in the reversible ring closure of both photochromic units in a model for a photoresponsive pi-conjugated polymer. This system demonstrates how metal-sensitized photochemistry, from a triplet excited state, circumvents the problems associated with other multicomponent photochromic systems, where significant electronic interactions in the ground state and singlet excited state prevent full photoswitching. Changes in charge-transfer behavior based upon conversion of both dithienylethenes to their ring-closed forms illustrate how photomodulation of conductivity through a conjugated polymer might be achieved using Pt-bis(acetylide)s.},
	issn = {0002-7863},
	doi = {10.1021/ja907434x},
	author = {Roberts, Matthew N. and Carling, Carl-Johan and Nagle, Jeffrey K. and Branda, Neil R. and Wolf, Michael O.}
}
