Sciencemadness Discussion Board

hexaarylbiimidazole

Morgan - 25-4-2016 at 10:33

I haven't seen any (working) videos of this effect but it might make for a good demonstration.

Amazing green moving light thingy
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2008/06/amazing_green_moving_li...

The thermal bleaching rate (τ1/2 = 260 ms at 295 K) is the fastest among the reported ones for HABI derivatives.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ol801135g

mayko - 26-4-2016 at 06:53

This looks really cool! Here's the paper in case there are access problems

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