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Switchable molecular tweezers: design and applications

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Switchable molecular tweezers are a unique class of molecular switches that, like their macroscopic analogs, exhibit mechanical motion between an open and closed conformation in response to stimuli. Such systems constitute an essential component of artificial molecular machines. This review will present selected examples of switchable molecular tweezers and their potential applications. The first part will be devoted to chemically responsive tweezers, including stimuli such as pH, metal coordination, and anion binding. Then, redox-active and photochemical tweezers will be presented.

Source: Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.20.45

Authors: Pablo Msellem, Maksym Dekthiarenko, Nihal Hadj Seyd, Guillaume Vives

Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire

Language: English

Topic: Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes

Subfield: Organic Chemistry

Field: Chemistry

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: European Commission, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Sorbonne Université, HORIZON EUROPE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions

Awards: G1120998688, G2314803536, G7242800581, Multistate Architectures for Multifunctional Systems