Long chain alkyl group appended 1-alkyl-2-(arylazo)imidazole complexes of Zinc(II).
Spectroscopic and X-ray structure determination of the complexes.
Photochromism trans-to-cis and thermal changes cis-to-trans in the S1 state.
Excitation of 蟺–蟺∗ state to S2 state relaxes to S1 state and decays to vibrational hot S0 state. The complexes exhibit three decay periods.
DFT and TD-DFT computation explain the mechanism of photoisomerisation.