Light-driven molecular motors: imines as four-step or two-step unidirectional rotors.
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Date publication
septembre 2014
Auteurs
Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr LEHN Jean-Marie
Tous les auteurs :
Greb L, Lehn JM
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Résumé
Chiral N-alkyl imines undergo unidirectional rotation induced by light and heat, thus providing a new class of molecular motors. Depending on the conformational flexibility of the stator part (the carbonyl residue) and the nitrogen inversion barrier of the rotor part (the amine residue) in the molecule, the operation mode of the motor can be controlled as either a four- or a two-step cycling motion of the rotor part.
Référence
J Am Chem Soc. 2014 Sep 24;136(38):13114-7