The structural and electronic properties of 3,3′-azothiophene photo-switching systems

A diversity of photo-switching structural elements opens up new opportunities in the engineering of light driven reshaping of matter, in catalysis on-click including photodynamic cancer therapy, in light sensitive transport control and in data storage. With the assistance of quantum calculations we explore the photo-physical properties of novel 3,3'-azothiophene molecular systems, the synthesis of which we reported recently. In the considered...