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Steroids as photonic wires. Z → E olefin photoisomerization involving ketone singlet → triplet switches by through-bond energy transfer
Agyin, Joseph K.,Timberlake, Larry D.,Morrison, Harry
, p. 7945 - 7953 (1997)
A series of steroids has been studied in which there is a dimethylphenylsiloxy (DPSO) group at the 3 position to serve as a light-absorbing antenna, a ketone group at C6 or C11 to serve as an energy 'relay' or as a 'singlet-triplet switch', and an olefin
