An Electrochemical Color-Switchable RGB Dye: Tristable [2]Catenane
Wei-Qiao Deng, Amar H. Flood, J. Fraser Stoddart, William A. Goddard III
Abstract
We propose a design for an electrochemically driven RGB dye based on a tristable [2]catenane, in which the color of the molecule can be switched between Red, Green, and Blue by merely changing voltage. Based on DFT calculations, we conclude that the tristable [2]catenane should consist of a CBPQT^(4+) ring interlocked with a polyether macrocyle containing DNP (red), TTF (green), and FBZD (blue) units as the tunable RGB color-generating donors. Thus, at controllable voltages 0, V_1, and V_2, the [2]catenane is expected to display green, blue, and red colors, respectively. The advent of these RGB tristable molecules may have potential applications in low cost paperlike electronic displays.
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Deng, W., Flood, A. H., Stoddart, J. F., & III, W. A. G. (2005). An Electrochemical Color-Switchable RGB Dye: Tristable [2]Catenane. *J. Am. Chem. Soc.*, *127*(46), 15994-15995. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja0431298