[HTML][HTML] Artificial molecular machines

S Erbas-Cakmak, DA Leigh, CT McTernan… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The widespread use of molecular machines in biology has long suggested that great
rewards could come from bridging the gap between synthetic molecular systems and the …

Material properties and applications of mechanically interlocked polymers

LF Hart, JE Hertzog, PM Rauscher, BW Rawe… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Mechanically interlocked polymers (MIPs), such as polyrotaxanes and polycatenanes, are
polymer architectures that incorporate a mechanical bond. In a polyrotaxane, the …

Artificial switchable catalysts

V Blanco, DA Leigh, V Marcos - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Catalysis is key to the effective and efficient transformation of readily available building
blocks into high value functional molecules and materials. For many years research in this …

New horizons for catalysis disclosed by supramolecular chemistry

G Olivo, G Capocasa, D Del Giudice… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The adoption of a supramolecular approach in catalysis promises to address a number of
unmet challenges, ranging from activity (unlocking of novel reaction pathways) to selectivity …

Nanoarchitectonics for dynamic functional materials from atomic‐/molecular‐level manipulation to macroscopic action

K Ariga, J Li, J Fei, Q Ji, JP Hill - Advanced Materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objects in all dimensions are subject to translational dynamism and dynamic mutual
interactions, and the ability to exert control over these events is one of the keys to the …

Controlling catalyst activity, chemoselectivity and stereoselectivity with the mechanical bond

AW Heard, JM Suárez, SM Goldup - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Mechanically interlocked molecules, such as rotaxanes and catenanes, are receiving
increased attention as scaffolds for the development of new catalysts, driven by both their …

(Nano) mechanical motion triggered by metal coordination: from functional devices to networked multicomponent catalytic machinery

A Goswami, S Saha, PK Biswas, M Schmittel - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
A look at the elegance and efficiency of biological machines readily reveals that Nature
masters the full gamut of chemical interactions to compose masterpieces of the living world …

Strategies for the synthesis of enantiopure mechanically chiral molecules

JRJ Maynard, SM Goldup - Chem, 2020 - cell.com
Mechanically interlocked molecules, such as rotaxanes and catenanes, are composed of
two or more covalent subcomponents threaded through one another such that they cannot …

Mechanically interlocked molecules in metal–organic frameworks

A Saura-Sanmartin, A Pastor… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) have great potential in the development of
molecular machinery due to their intercomponent dynamics. The incorporation of these …

Diastereoselective amplification of a mechanically chiral [2] catenane

K Caprice, D Pál, C Besnard, B Galmés… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Achiral [2] catenanes composed of rings with inequivalent sides may adopt chiral co-
conformations. Their stereochemistry depends on the relative orientation of the interlocked …