Rotation of a bulky triptycene in the solid state: toward engineered nanoscale artificial molecular machines

X Jiang, B Rodríguez-Molina, N Nazarian… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014ACS Publications
We report the design and dynamics of a solid-state molecular rotor with a large triptycene
rotator. With a cross-section and surface area that are 2 and 3 times larger than those of the
phenylene rotators previously studied in the solid state, it is expected that van der Waals
forces and steric hindrance will render the motion of the larger triptycene more difficult. To
address this challenge, we used a rigid and shape-persistent stator in a dendritic structure
that reaches ca. 3.6 nm in length. Using variable-temperature solid-state 2H NMR …
We report the design and dynamics of a solid-state molecular rotor with a large triptycene rotator. With a cross-section and surface area that are 2 and 3 times larger than those of the phenylene rotators previously studied in the solid state, it is expected that van der Waals forces and steric hindrance will render the motion of the larger triptycene more difficult. To address this challenge, we used a rigid and shape-persistent stator in a dendritic structure that reaches ca. 3.6 nm in length. Using variable-temperature solid-state 2H NMR spectroscopy, we determined a symmetric three-fold rotational potential with a barrier of 10.2 kcal/mol and a pre-exponential factor of 1.1 × 1010 s–1, which correspond to ca. 4600 Brownian jumps per second in the solid state at 300 K.
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