ArticleNature chemistry2018
Ring-through-ring molecular shuttling in a saturated [3]rotaxane.
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- The End of the Beginning of Mechanical Stereochemistry.Accounts of chemical research · 2024Article
- Stretchable poly[2]rotaxane elastomers.Fundamental research · 2024Article
- Artificial molecular machines: Design and observation.Smart molecules : open access · 2023Review
- Photoactivated Artificial Molecular Motors.JACS Au · 2023Review
- Effect of Charge State on the Equilibrium and Kinetic Properties of Mechanically Interlocked [5]Rotaxane: A Molecular Dynamics Study.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2023Article
- The Story of the Little Blue Box: A Tribute to Siegfried Hünig.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2023Review
- Synchronizing Two Distinct Nano-Circular Sliding Motions in Six-Component Machinery for Double Catalysis.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2022Article
- Preprogrammed assembly of supramolecular polymer networks via the controlled disassembly of a metastable rotaxane.Communications chemistry · 2022Article
- Photoinduced Autonomous Nonequilibrium Operation of a Molecular Shuttle by Combined Isomerization and Proton Transfer Through a Catalytic Pathway.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2022Article
- Distinctive features and challenges in catenane chemistry.Chemical science · 2022Review
- Selective photoinduced charge separation in perylenediimide-pillar[5]arene rotaxanes.Nature communications · 2022Article
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- Rigidity and Flexibility in Rotaxanes and Their Relatives; On Being Stubborn and Easy-Going.Frontiers in chemistry · 2022Review
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Abstract
Mechanically interlocked molecules such as rotaxanes and catenanes comprise two or more components whose motion relative to each other can be controlled. A [2]rotaxane molecular shuttle, for example, consists of an axle bearing two recognition sites and a single macrocyclic wheel that can undergo a to-and-fro motion along the axle-shuttling between the recognition sites. The ability of mechanically interlocked molecules to undergo this type of large-amplitude change is the core mechanism behind almost every interlocked molecular switch or machine, including sophisticated mechanical systems such as a molecular elevator and a peptide synthesizer. Here, as a way to expand the scope of dynamics possible at the molecular level, we have developed a molecular shuttling mechanism involving the exchange of rings between two recognition sites in a saturated [3]rotaxane (one with no empty recognition sites). This was accomplished by passing a smaller ring through a larger one, thus achieving ring-through-ring molecular shuttling.
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