Issue 57, 2018
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Chemical Communications

A light-driven molecular machine based on stiff stilbene†

Yuan Wang,ab   Yancong Tian,c   Yu-Zhe Chen, ORCID logo b   Li-Ya Niu, ORCID logo a   Li-Zhu Wu, ORCID logo b   Chen-Ho Tung,b   Qing-Zheng Yang ORCID logo *a  and  Roman Boulatovc  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Laboratory of Radiopharmaceuticals, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, P. R. China
E-mail: qzyang@bnu.edu.cn

b Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China

c Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZD, UK

Abstract

We report a new molecular design for optically triggered nm-scale translation of a submolecular component relative to another. We used a rotaxane-like molecule terminated at one end with stiff stilbene that served both as a chromophore to trigger the translation of the pillar[5]arene “wheel” and as a stopper to prevent its dethreading.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C8CC04542A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
07 Jun 2018
Accepted
27 Jun 2018
First published
27 Jun 2018

Chem. Commun., 2018,54, 7991-7994

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A light-driven molecular machine based on stiff stilbene

Y. Wang, Y. Tian, Y. Chen, L. Niu, L. Wu, C. Tung, Q. Yang and R. Boulatov, Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 7991 DOI: 10.1039/C8CC04542A

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