Molecular photoactuators can control shape and chemical or physical properties of the
responsive system they are embedded in. These effects are usually mediated by …

The ability to tune molecular self‐organization with an external stimulus is a main driving
force in the bottom‐up nanofabrication of molecular devices. Light‐driven chiral molecular …

A series of macrocyclic azobenzene‐based chiral photoswitches have been judiciously
designed, synthesized, and characterized. In the molecular structures, binaphthyl is …

Enantiomeric glutamate gelators containing a spiropyran moiety are designed and found to
self‐assemble into a nanohelix through gelation. Upon alternating UV and visible light …

Azobenzenes, which exist in the form of trans and cis isomers and can be isomerized by
irradiation with UV/Vis light, form one of the largest and most widely studied classes of …

Macrocyclic compounds play an important role in supramolecular chemistry accounting for
their unique recognition and self-assembly properties and potential applications in …

The cis and trans forms of the azobenzene skeleton differ significantly in length and
therefore are frequently used as photochromic parts for changing absorption and …

We describe a tweezer-like molecule constituted of two 4, 4′-bipyridinium arms connected
by means of alkyl spacers to a 1, 1′-binaphthyl unit acting as a hinge. In aqueous solution …

Axially chiral binaphthyl-azobenzene cyclic dyads in which the two moieties are connected
by two linkers of different lengths were synthesized. In the case of benzylated-binaphthyl …

The absolute configuration of a binaphthyl-azobenzene dyad 2b, which has a chiral axis and
a chiral plane, was determined by comparing the experimental circular dichroism (CD) …