Shuttles and Muscles: Linear Molecular Machines Based on Transition Metals
Published in Accounts of Chemical Research • Apr 24, 2001
Authors:,,
Jean‐Paul Collin
Christiane O. Dietrich-Buchecker
Pablo Gaviña
Abstract
Transition-metal-containing rotaxanes can behave as linear motors at the molecular level. The molecules are set into motion either by an electrochemical reaction or using a chemical signal. In a first example, a simple rotaxane is described that consists of a ring threaded by a two-coordination-site...