Cover Gallery

1	[Front Cover] Correlation between steric substituent constants and thermal cycloreversion reactivity of diarylethene closed-ring isomers D. Kitagawa, K. Sasaki, S. Kobatake Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 84(2), 141-147 (2011). [BCSJ Award Article] [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20100274], published on February 2011
2	[Inside Front Cover] Alkyl substituent effects in photochemical and thermal reactions of photochromic thiophene-S,S-dioxidized diarylethenes H. Shoji, D. Kitagawa, S. Kobatake New J. Chem., 38(3), 933-941 (2014). [DOI: 10.1039/c3nj01246h], published on March 1, 2014
3	[Back Cover] Dependence of photoinduced bending behavior of diarylethene crystals on irradiation wavelength of ultraviolet light D. Kitagawa, R. Tanaka, S. Kobatake Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 17(41), 27300-27305 (2015). [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp03073k], published on November 7, 2015
4	[Inside Back Cover] Photoinduced stepwise bending behavior of photochromic diarylethene crystals D. Kitagawa, R. Tanaka, S. Kobatake CrystEngComm, 18(38), 7236-7240 (2016). [DOI: 10.1039/c6ce00607h], published on October 14, 2016
5	[Back Cover] Wavelength-selective and high-contrast multicolour fluorescence photoswitching in a mixture of photochromic nanoparticles S. Ishida, T. Fukaminato, D. Kitagawa, S. Kobatake, S. Kim, T. Ogata, S. Kurihara Chem. Commun., 53(59), 8268-8271 (2017). [DOI: 10.1039/C7CC02938A], published on July 28, 2017
6	[Front Cover] Synthesis and optical properties of fluorescent switchable silica nanoparticles covered with copolymers consisting of diarylethene and fluorene derivatives K. Shimizu, S. Kobatake ChemistrySelect, 2(20), 5445-5452 (2017). [DOI: 10.1002/slct.201700698], published on July 11, 2017
7	[2nd Front Cover] Control of photomechanical crystal twisting by illumination direction D. Kitagawa, H. Tsujioka, F. Tong, X. Dong, C. J. Bardeen, S. Kobatake J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140(12), 4208-4212 (2018). [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b13605], published on March 28, 2018
8	[Back Cover] 1,2-Diarylbenzene as Fast T-type Photochromic Switch D. Kitagawa, T. Nakahama, Y. Nakai, S. Kobatake J. Mater. Chem. C, 7(10), 2865-2870 (2019). [DOI: 10.1039/C8TC05357J], published on March 14, 2019
9	[Inside Front Cover] Photomechanical bending behavior of photochromic diarylethene crystals induced under polarized light A. Hirano, D. Kitagawa, S. Kobatake CrystEngComm, 21(15), 2495-2501 (2019). [DOI: 10.1039/C9CE00175A], published on April 21, 2019
10	[Front Cover] Cyclization reaction dynamics of an inverse type diarylethene derivative as revealed by time-resolved absorption and fluorescence spectroscopies H. Sotome, D. Kitagawa, T. Nakahama, S. Ito, S. Kobatake, M. Irie, H. Miyasaka Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 21(17), 8623-8632 (2019). [DOI: 10.1039/C8CP07393G], published on May 7, 2019
11	[Front Cover] Efficient "turn-off" fluorescence photoswitching in a highly fluorescent diarylethene single crystal S. Ishida, D. Kitagawa, S. Kobatake, S. Kim, S. Kurihara, T. Fukaminato Chem. Commun., 55(40), 5681-5684 (2019). [DOI: 10.1039/c9cc02441g], published on May 18, 2019
12	[Front Cover] Photoreversible interference color modulation to multicolor in photochromic molecular crystals K. Morimoto, H. Tsujioka, D. Kitagawa, S. Kobatake Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 92(8), 1299-1304 (2019). [BCSJ Award Article] [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20190114], published on August, 2019
13	[Cover] Photoreversible birefringence change of diarylethene single crystals as revealed by change in molecular polarizability anisotropy K. Morimoto, H. Tsujioka, D. Kitagawa, S. Kobatake J. Phys. Chem. A, 124(23), 4732-4741 (2020). [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c02774], published on June 11, 2020
14	[Back Cover] Nanosecond laser photothermal effect-triggered amplification of photochromic reactions in diarylethene nanoparticles Y. Ishibashi, S. Nakai, K. Masuda, D. Kitagawa, S. Kobatake, T. Asahi Chem. Commun., 56(52), 7088-7091 (2020). [DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00884B], published on July 4, 2020
15	[Front Cover] Geometrical evolution and formation of the photoproduct in the cycloreversion reaction of a diarylethene derivative probed with molecular vibrations H. Sotome, H. Okajima, T. Nagasaka, Y. Tachii, A. Sakamoto, S. Kobatake, M. Irie, H. Miyasaka ChemPhysChem., 21(14), 1524-1530 (2020). [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202000315], published on July 17, 2020
16	[Front Cover] Symmetry breaking and photomechanical behavior of photochromic organic crystals D. Kitagawa, C. J. Bardeen, S. Kobatake Symmetry, 12(9), 1478 (16 pages) (2020). [DOI: 10.3390/sym12091478], published on September 9, 2020
17	[Inside Back Cover] Light-powered autonomous flagella-like motion of molecular crystal microwires F. Tong, D. Kitagawa, I. Bushnak, R. O. Al-Kaysi, C. J. Bardeen Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60, 2413-2423 (2021). [DOI: 10.1002/anie.202012417], published on February 1, 2021
18	[Cover] Fast T-type photochromic crystals of diarylbenzene S. Hamatani, D. Kitagawa, S. Kobatake J. Phys. Chem. C, 125(8), 4588-4594 (2021). [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c10988], published on March 4, 2021 (online February 18, 2021).
19	[Cover] Light-driven rapid peeling of photochromic diarylethene single crystals M. Tamaoki, D. Kitagawa, S. Kobatake Cryst. Growth Des., 21(5), 3093-3099 (2021). [DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.1c00270], published on May 5, 2021 (online: April 19, 2021).
20	[Inside Back Cover] Correlating reaction dynamics and size change during the photomechanical transformation of 9-methylanthracene single crystals K. Morimoto, D. Kitagawa, F. Tong, K. Chalek, L. J. Mueller, C. J. Bardeen, S. Kobatake Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 61(2), e202114089 (2022). [DOI: 10.1002/anie.202114089], published on Jan. 10, 2022 (online: November 11, 2021).