G. Harie et al., COMPARATIVE-STUDY OF CHROMENES CONTAINING DIFFERENT SPIRO-CARBOCYCLICMOIETIES, Molecular crystals and liquid crystals science and technology. Section A, Molecular crystals and liquid crystals, 297, 1997, pp. 263-268
Photochromic chromenes containing different spiro-carbocyclic moieties
have been synthesized. A new pathway was developped to synthesize the
required alpha,beta-ethylenic aldehydes precursors. On the other hand
, two complementary procedures of ''chromenisation'' were successfully
used. A study of the photochromic behavior allowed us to evaluate the
influence of structural modifications: strong parameters variations w
ere actually observed.