Photo-and redox-driven artificial molecular motors

M Baroncini, S Silvi, A Credi - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Directed motion at the nanoscale is a central attribute of life, and chemically driven motor
proteins are nature's choice to accomplish it. Motivated and inspired by such …

The atom, the molecule, and the covalent organic framework

CS Diercks, OM Yaghi - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND Just over a century ago, Gilbert N. Lewis published his seminal work “The
Atom and the Molecule” on what later became known as the covalent bond. Since then …

[PDF][PDF] Mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs)-molecular shuttles, switches, and machines

JF Stoddart - Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, 2017 - nobelprize.org
One of the most influential books ever to have been written in the field of chemistry is e
Nature of the Chemical Bond by Linus Pauling [1], the first edition of which was published in …

Surveying macrocyclic chemistry: from flexible crown ethers to rigid cyclophanes

Z Liu, SKM Nalluri, JF Stoddart - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Macrocycles are molecular entities that display a combination of molecular recognition and
complexation properties with vital implications for host–guest/supramolecular chemistry …

Catenanes: fifty years of molecular links

G Gil‐Ramírez, DA Leigh… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Half a century after Schill and Lüttringhaus carried out the first directed synthesis of a [2]
catenane, a plethora of strategies now exist for the construction of molecular Hopf links …

Controlled photoinduced generation of “visual” partially and fully charge separated states in viologen analogues

L Liu, Q Liu, R Li, MS Wang… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Charge-separated states with a lifetime scale of seconds or longer not only favor studies
using various steady-state analysis techniques but are important for light-energy conversion …

Tuning the stability of organic radicals: from covalent approaches to non-covalent approaches

B Tang, J Zhao, JF Xu, X Zhang - Chemical Science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic radicals are important species with single electrons. Because of their open-shell
structure, they are widely used in functional materials, such as spin probes, magnetic …

The story of the little blue box: a tribute to Siegfried Hünig

XY Chen, H Chen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The tetracationic cyclophane, cyclobis (paraquat‐p‐phenylene), also known as the little blue
box, constitutes a modular receptor that has facilitated the discovery of many host–guest …

The rise and promise of molecular nanotopology

QH Guo, Y Jiao, Y Feng, JF Stoddart - CCS Chemistry, 2021 - chinesechemsoc.org
Molecular nanotopology—a term we coined recently—is a rapidly develo** field of
research that is emerging out of the confluence of chemical topology with the mechanical …

Recent advances and perspectives on supramolecular radical cages

B Huang, L Mao, X Shi, HB Yang - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Supramolecular radical chemistry has been emerging as a cutting-edge interdisciplinary
field of traditional supramolecular chemistry and radical chemistry in recent years. The …