Ne. Shelepin et al., PHOTOCHROMIC PROPERTIES OF NOVEL SPIROOXAZINES OF THE NAPHTHALENE ANDPHENANTHRENE SERIES IN POLYMERIC FILMS, Molecular crystals and liquid crystals science and technology. Section A, Molecular crystals and liquid crystals, 297, 1997, pp. 451-456
Novel spirooxazines of the naphthalene and phenanthrene series have be
en synthesized and studied in PMMA. All of them were found to be photo
chromic, with high fatigue resistance depending strongly on the struct
ure of the oxazine moiety and substituents in the fragments of the spi
rocyclic molecule. The efficiency of the photocoloration depends mainl
y on the steric factors.