Mechanically interlocked polymers based on rotaxanes

L Chen, X Sheng, G Li, F Huang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The nature of mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) has continued to encourage
researchers to design and construct a variety of high-performance materials. Introducing …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial molecular machines

S Erbas-Cakmak, DA Leigh, CT McTernan… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
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 …

Stimuli-responsive metal–ligand assemblies

AJ McConnell, CS Wood, PP Neelakandan… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Within living systems, molecular-scale responses to stimuli flow together into the intricate
and robust signal transduction networks that process information for an organism. Studies of …

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) …

Large, tunable, and reversible pH changes by merocyanine photoacids

L Wimberger, SKK Prasad, MD Peeks… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Molecular photoswitches capable of generating precise pH changes will allow pH-
dependent processes to be controlled remotely and noninvasively with light. We introduce a …

Strategies and tactics for the metal‐directed synthesis of rotaxanes, knots, catenanes, and higher order links

JE Beves, BA Blight, CJ Campbell… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
More than a quarter of a century after the first metal template synthesis of a [2] catenane in
Strasbourg, there now exists a plethora of strategies available for the construction of …

Polymeric rotaxanes

A Harada, A Hashidzume, H Yamaguchi… - Chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
In the past three decades, chemistry has changed from focusing on a single molecule to
molecular assemblies. Through the discovery of macrocycles, the chemistry of molecular …

(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 Pd 2 L 4 metallosupramolecular cages: towards targeted cisplatin drug delivery

JEM Lewis, EL Gavey, SA Cameron, JD Crowley - Chemical Science, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Metallosupramolecular cages are an emerging, but as of yet relativity unexplored, drug
delivery vector. Herein we show that discrete dipalladium (II) molecular cages of the formula …

Enzyme-based logic systems for information processing

E Katz, V Privman - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
In this critical review we review enzymatic systems which involve biocatalytic reactions
utilized for information processing (biocomputing). Extensive ongoing research in …