[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 …

Photoresponsive host–guest functional systems

DH Qu, QC Wang, QW Zhang, X Ma, H Tian - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular chemistry mainly focuses on the chemical systems assembled by a discrete
number of molecular components through weak and reversible noncovalent interactions …

Development of pseudorotaxanes and rotaxanes: from synthesis to stimuli-responsive motions to applications

M Xue, Y Yang, X Chi, X Yan, F Huang - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
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) …

A tape-reading molecular ratchet

Y Ren, R Jamagne, DJ Tetlow, DA Leigh - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Cells process information in a manner reminiscent of a Turing machine, autonomously
reading data from molecular tapes and translating it into outputs,. Randomly processive …

Directing coupled motion with light: a key step toward machine-like function

R Costil, M Holzheimer, S Crespi, NA Simeth… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Molecular photoactuators can control shape and chemical or physical properties of the
responsive system they are embedded in. These effects are usually mediated by …

Chirality in rotaxanes and catenanes

EMG Jamieson, F Modicom, SM Goldup - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Although chiral mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) have been synthesised and
studied, enantiopure examples are relatively under-represented in the pantheon of reported …

[HTML][HTML] Rise of the molecular machines

ER Kay, DA Leigh - Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
“When we get to the very, very small world… we have a lot of new things that would happen
that represent completely new opportunities for design… At the atomic level we have new …

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 …

AIE‐Active Chiral [3] Rotaxanes with Switchable Circularly Polarized Luminescence

WJ Li, Q Gu, XQ Wang, DY Zhang, YT Wang… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The construction of circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) switches with multiple
switchable emission states and high dissymmetry factors (glum) has attracted increasing …

Strategies and tactics for the metal‐directed synthesis of rotaxanes, knots, catenanes, and higher order links

JE Beves, BA Blight, CJ Campbell… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
More than a quarter of a century after the first metal template synthesis of a [2] catenane in
Strasbourg, there now exists a plethora of strategies available for the construction of …