Aroylhydrazones as potential systems for information storage: photoisomerization and metal complexation

Aroylhydrazones are compounds formed
from the condensation of an acylhydrazine
and an aldehyde. These compounds
exhibit dynamic reversible properties
such as isomerization photochemically
and thermally activated, hydrazine
substitution and coordination to metallic
centers. All these together represent systems
with multiple dynamics suitable for
information storage devices and for the
design of molecular photoswitches.