Kenta Sakurada, Tomohiro Seki and Hajime Ito
CrystEngComm, 2016,18, 7217-7220
DOI:
10.1039/C5CE02565F,
Communication
Ball milling of blue-emitting crystal 1B of gold(I) isocyanide complex 1 induces a phase transition to yellow-emitting powder 1YG, which has the same solid structure as the previously reported 1Y obtained upon photoirradiation of 1B. This is the first example of mechanical stimulation inducing a phase change to a photo-accessible crystalline phase.