Only the closed form of the diarylethene reported here can combine with the metal ions, meanwhile the coordination would surprisingly induce cycle opening of photochromic unit and color bleaching process. These properties can be applied in detection of Cu 2+ and Hg 2+ ions and single molecular keypad lock.
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