Directed motion at the nanoscale is a central attribute of life, and chemically driven motor
proteins are nature's choice to accomplish it. Motivated and inspired by such …

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 …

Supramolecular chemistry uses non-covalent interactions to coax molecules into forming
ordered assemblies. The construction of ordered materials with these reversible bonds has …

Crystalline porous organic salts (CPOSs), formed by the self-assembly of organic acids and
organic bases through ionic bonding, possess definite structures and permanent porosity …

The solid state is typically not well suited to sustaining fast molecular motion, but in recent
years a variety of molecular machines, switches and rotors have been successfully …

The inclusion compound [(CH3) 2NH2] 2 [KCo (CN) 6] exhibits a marked temperature-
dependent dielectric constant and can be considered as a model of tunable and switchable …

Once seldom encountered outside of a few laboratories, carboranes are now everywhere,
playing a role in the development of a broad range of technologies encompassing organic …

The past quarter of a century has witnessed an increasing engagement on the part of
physicists and chemists in the design and synthesis of molecular machines de novo. This …

Conspectus Molecules and materials can show dynamic structures in which the dominant
mechanism is rotary motion. The single mobile elements are defined as “molecular rotors” …

Metal-catalyzed mono-acylmethylation of pyridylcarboranes has been realized using α-
carbonyl sulfoxonium ylides as a coupling partner. The reaction features high efficiency …