Key words: photochromism, spirocompounds, SCF impregnation, luminescence, electron-donor compounds
Aromatic electron-donor compounds (EDC) (such as toluene and dibutyl phthalate)
are found to affect the content of photochromic spiroantrooxazine (SAO) and to
control the ratio of its colored forms (B and Bx) introduced into thermoplastic
polymeric matrixes (e.g. polyvinylchloride and F-42 fluoroplast) using the supercritical
fluid impregnation (SCFI). The presence of EDC in impregnated polymers induces
the reciprocal transformations of the SAO colored form B and Bx and
increases the rate their «dark» bleaching.
doi:10.1134/S1990793114080053