An automated photo-isomerisation and kinetics characterisation setup for molecular photoswitches: Supporting information

Since Norbornadiene is the slowest to back convert, we show here the significance of letting the sample fully back convert before stopping the experiment. For one experiment the values of the rate constant, k, was evaluated using different parts of the time evolution to simulate an experiment performed in shorter time. The effects of letting the compound fully convert on the rate constant do not seem consistent as including more points in the beginning causes the rate constant to increase and including later points causes the rate constant to decrease again. With a 10% difference between the determined rate constant between long and short experiments, this benchmark demonstrates the potential efficiency increase in performing experiments for shorter time with a small decrease in accuracy.

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