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Toward a Light-Driven Motorized Nanocar: Synthesis and Initial Imaging of Single Molecules

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: A second generation motorized nanocar was designed, synthesized, and imaged. To verify structural integrity, NMR-based COSY, NOESY, DEPT, HSQC, and HMBC experiments were conducted on the intermediate motor. All signals in (1)H NMR were unambiguously assigned, and the results were consistent with the helical structure of the motor. The nanocar was deposited on a Cu(111) surface, and single intact molecules were imaged by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) at 5.7 K, thereby paving the way for future single-molecule studies of this motorized nanocar atop planar substrates.

Source: ACS Nano

DOI: 10.1021/nn203969b

Authors: Pinn-Tsong Chiang, Johannes Mielke, Jazmin Godoy, Jason M. Guerrero, Lawrence B. Alemany, Carlos J. Villagómez, Alex Saywell, Leonhard Grill, James M. Tour

Institutions: Rice University, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society

Language: English

Topic: Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes

Subfield: Organic Chemistry

Field: Chemistry

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, Division of Chemistry

OpenAlex ID: W2153749079

FWCI: 4.187

Cites: 28

Cited by: 127

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