Design of collective motions from synthetic molecular switches, rotors, and motors

D Dattler, G Fuks, J Heiser, E Moulin, A Perrot… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Precise control over molecular movement is of fundamental and practical importance in
physics, biology, and chemistry. At nanoscale, the peculiar functioning principles and the …

[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 …

Synthetic molecular motors and mechanical machines

ER Kay, DA Leigh, F Zerbetto - … Chemie International Edition, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Artificial molecular rotors

GS Kottas, LI Clarke, D Horinek, J Michl - Chemical Reviews, 2005 - ACS Publications
To many, periodic mechanical conformational motion of molecules is mesmerizing to a
degree that is difficult to explain rationally: It is almost as hard to stop watching an image of …

(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 …

Metallosupramolecular architectures obtained from poly-N-heterocyclic carbene ligands

N Sinha, FE Hahn - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Over the past two decades, self-assembly of supramolecular architectures has
become a field of intensive research due to the wide range of applications for the resulting …

Beyond platonic: how to build metal–organic polyhedra capable of binding low-symmetry, information-rich molecular cargoes

CT McTernan, JA Davies, JR Nitschke - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The field of metallosupramolecular chemistry has advanced rapidly in recent years. Much
work in this area has focused on the formation of hollow self-assembled metal-organic …

Twisted pentagonal prisms: AgnL2 metal-organic pillars

X Wan, S Li, Y Tian, J Xu, LC Shen, H Zuilhof, M Zhang… - Chem, 2022 - cell.com
The structures of hierarchically assembled supramolecular architectures are dictated
characteristically by the encoded symmetries and geometries of the corresponding building …

Coordination chemistry strategies for dynamic helicates: time-programmable chirality switching with labile and inert metal helicates

H Miyake, H Tsukube - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
'Chirality switching'is one of the most important chemical processes controlling many
biological systems. DNAs and proteins often work as time-programmed functional helices, in …

Structural flexibility in metal-organic cages

AE Martín Díaz, JEM Lewis - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Metal-organic cages (MOCs) have emerged as a diverse class of molecular hosts with
potential utility across a vast spectrum of applications. With advances in single-crystal X-ray …