From Photoswitch to Polycycle: Structure-Reactivity Relationships in the Photoinduced Isomerization-Cyclization of Amino(hetero)arylidene-thiazolidine-2,4-diones.
We report a comprehensive study of the photoinduced isomerization-cyclization cascade of o-amino(hetero)arylidenethiazolidine-2,4-diones (Het)Ar-TZDs 1, combining computational, synthetic, and kinetic investigations. Time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations were used to predict absorption maxima a...