Molecular ratchets and kinetic asymmetry: giving chemistry direction

S Borsley, DA Leigh… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last two decades ratchet mechanisms have transformed the understanding and
design of stochastic molecular systems—biological, chemical and physical—in a move away …

Artificial molecular ratchets: tools enabling endergonic processes

T Sangchai, S Al Shehimy, E Penocchio… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐equilibrium chemical systems underpin multiple domains of contemporary interest,
including supramolecular chemistry, molecular machines, systems chemistry, prebiotic …

Active template synthesis

R Jamagne, MJ Power, ZH Zhang, G Zango… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The active template synthesis of mechanically interlocked molecular architectures exploits
the dual ability of various structural elements (metals or, in the case of metal-free active …

Simplicity in the design, operation, and applications of mechanically interlocked molecular machines

AW Heard, SM Goldup - ACS Central Science, 2020 - ACS Publications
Mechanically interlocked molecules are perhaps best known as components of molecular
machines, a view further reinforced by the Nobel Prize in 2016 to Stoddart and Sauvage …

Compact rotaxane superbases

MJ Power, DTJ Morris… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Challenges for the development of efficacious new superbases include their ease of
synthesis, chemical stability, and high basicity, while minimizing nucleophilicity is important …

The burgeoning of mechanically interlocked molecules in chemistry

D Sluysmans, JF Stoddart - Trends in Chemistry, 2019 - cell.com
Mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs), such as rotaxanes, catenanes, and molecular
knots, have attracted significant interest because of their unique properties originating from …

Transamidation-driven molecular pumps

L Binks, C Tian, SDP Fielden… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report a new class of synthetic molecular pumps that use a stepwise information ratchet
mechanism to achieve the kinetic gating required to sequester their macrocyclic substrates …

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 …

Single-step enantioselective synthesis of mechanically planar chiral [2] rotaxanes using a chiral leaving group strategy

C Tian, SDP Fielden, B Pérez-Saavedra… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We report a one-step enantioselective synthesis of mechanically planar chiral [2] rotaxanes.
Previous studies of such molecules have generally involved the separation of enantiomers …

Functional rotaxanes in catalysis

C Kwamen, J Niemeyer - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) have gained attention in the field of catalysis
due to their unique molecular properties. Central to MIMs, rotaxanes are highly promising …