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) …

(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 …

Stimuli-responsive metallo-supramolecular polymer films: design, synthesis and device fabrication

M Higuchi - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Metallo-supramolecular polymers, which were synthesized via the 1: 1 complexation of
metal ions with ditopic organic ligands, showed unique electro-and photo-chemical …

Energetic chromophores: low-energy laser initiation in explosive Fe (II) tetrazine complexes

TW Myers, JA Bjorgaard, KE Brown… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The synthesis and characterization of air stable Fe (II) coordination complexes with tetrazine
and triazolo-tetrazine ligands and perchlorate counteranions have been achieved. Time …

Redox-active N-heterocyclic carbenes: Design, synthesis, and evaluation of their electronic properties

EL Rosen, CD Varnado Jr, AG Tennyson… - …, 2009 - ACS Publications
To investigate effects of redox-active functional groups on the coordination chemistry and
electronic properties of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs), we prepared a series of complexes …

Extreme stabilization and redox switching of organic anions and radical anions by large-cavity, CH hydrogen-bonding cyanostar macrocycles

CR Benson, EM Fatila, S Lee, MG Marzo… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Encapsulation of unstable guests is a powerful way to enhance their stability. The lifetimes of
organic anions and their radicals produced by reduction are typically short on account of …

Heteroleptic copper phenanthroline complexes in motion: From stand-alone devices to multi-component machinery

A Goswami, M Schmittel - Coordination chemistry reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Two and a half decades of copper phenanthroline-based switches, devices and machines
have illustrated the rich dynamic nature of these metal complexes. With an emphasis on the …

Main group molecular switches with swivel bifurcated to trifurcated hydrogen bond mode of action

G Hum, SJI Phang, HC Ong, F León… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Artificial molecular machines have captured the full attention of the scientific community
since Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart, and Ben Feringa were awarded the 2016 …

Excited state distortion in photochromic ruthenium sulfoxide complexes

BA McClure, ER Abrams, JJ Rack - Journal of the American …, 2010 - ACS Publications
A series of photochromic ruthenium sulfoxide complexes of the form [Ru (bpy) 2 (OSOR)]+,
where bpy is 2, 2′-bipyridine and OSOR is 2-(benzylsulfinyl) benzoate (OSOBn), 2 …

Switchable V-type [2] pseudorotaxanes

H Zhang, Q Wang, M Liu, X Ma, H Tian - Organic Letters, 2009 - ACS Publications
A V-type molecule comprising a 2-[2-[4-(dimethylamino) phenyl] ethenyl] pyridinium cyanine
branch and ap-aminophenoxy ethyl side arm was synthesized and can form quite different …