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 …

Supramolecular chemistry mainly focuses on the chemical systems assembled by a discrete
number of molecular components through weak and reversible noncovalent interactions …

The history of isomeric types of organic molecules has passed through several important
stages:(1) Molecules that differ from each other with different numbers and types of atoms;(2) …

The widespread use of controlled molecular‐level motion in key natural processes suggests
that great rewards could come from bridging the gap between the present generation of …

We report on catalysis by a fuel‐induced transient state of a synthetic molecular machine. A
[2] rotaxane molecular shuttle containing secondary ammonium/amine and thiourea stations …

Here we correlate chemical (covalent), physical (thermodynamic), and statistical (population
distribution) descriptions of behavior with the way that two new types of simple molecular …

A series of [2] rotaxanes containing succinamide and naphthalimide hydrogen-bonding
stations for a benzylic amide macrocycle is described. Electrochemical reduction and …

Rotaxanes have received considerable interest in recent years because of their potential
applications in nanostructured functional materials and molecular devices.[1–5] Deeper …

The extensive use of molecular machine-like processes in biology [1] is inspiring efforts to
exploit similarly well-controlled motions in functional synthetic systems.[2] Stimuliresponsive …

Mixtures of the E and Z-isomers of 3 and 3⊂ α-CD were generated by irradiating solutions of
each E-isomer in N2-saturated water (ca 1 mM) in 10 mm silica cuvettes at 340 and 347 nm …