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Published September 28, 2016 | Supplemental Material
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Regioisomer-Specific Mechanochromism of Naphthopyran in Polymeric Materials

Abstract

Transformation of naphthopyran into a colored merocyanine species in polymeric materials is achieved using mechanical force. We demonstrate that the mechanochemical reactivity of naphthopyran is critically dependent on the regiochemistry, with only one particular substitution pattern leading to successful mechanochemical activation. Two alternative regioisomers with different polymer attachment points are demonstrated to be mechanochemically inactive. This trend in reactivity is accurately predicted by DFT calculations, reinforcing predictive capabilities in mechanochemical systems. We rationalize the reactivity differences between naphthopyran regioisomers in terms of the alignment of the target C–O pyran bond with the direction of the applied mechanical force and its effect on mechanochemical transduction along the reaction coordinate.

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© 2016 American Chemical Society. Received: July 22, 2016; Published: September 12, 2016. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (DMR 1307354). M.J.R. gratefully acknowledges the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for a Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship. The authors declare no competing financial interest.

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