Rotary molecular motors: a large increase in speed through a small change in design

Tatiana Fernández Landaluce; Gábor London; Michael M Pollard; Petra Rudolf; Ben L Feringa

doi:10.1021/jo1006976

Rotary molecular motors: a large increase in speed through a small change in design

J Org Chem. 2010 Aug 6;75(15):5323-5. doi: 10.1021/jo1006976.

Authors

Tatiana Fernández Landaluce¹, Gábor London, Michael M Pollard, Petra Rudolf, Ben L Feringa

Affiliation

¹ Centre for Systems Chemistry, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.

PMID: 20593883
DOI: 10.1021/jo1006976

Abstract

Reducing the steric interaction between the upper-half and the lower-half of a light-driven rotary molecular motor by decreasing the size of the aromatic moiety in the upper-half from a naphthalene to a benzothiophene results in an almost 3500 times faster rotation.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Molecular Conformation
Rotation*
Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization
Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
Thermodynamics

Grants and funding

227897/ERC_/European Research Council/International